[kictanet] [PK] Kshs 8.5 billion on just CCTV cameras within Nairobi?

[bitange at jambo.co.ke]

Collins,
We do not know the scope of this project.


Regards


Ndemo.




> Listers sorry for cross posting:
>
> Dear Omtata, Ill begin with a statement I read somewhere:
> "An elephant is a rat built to government specifications".
>
> That Said & Done, the person answerable to us on this matter must, and has
> to be the PS , Daktari Ndemo. The assumption has to be that Due diligence
> was followed (or should have been followed) and procurement of these
> gadgets involved the necessary ministries for technology oversight. That
> said, I doubt that the procured equipment was of the order that you find
> on
> Kimathi street or other local suppliers. As interested parties in the
> security of the nation, I would assume that only military grade equipment
> would do, where various organs, NSIS, KDOD & other uniforms would put in
> requirements for this that would then be added up to determine the scope.
>
> Considering our military is a highly secretive one, and that procurements
> come to be heard of years later, and factoring in the fact that while
> latest trends show that our learnings have been to the east when procuring
> hardware, we still maintain a "joined in the hip" relationship with some
> western leaning nations such as Israel. It would therefore not be
> inimaginable that some obscure "additions" might have been added onto the
> mix to do more specific tasks than just "seeing". In which case then
> securing these 51 installations, getting the relevant persons trained to
> the right skill set and running interferance would easily hit that mark.
>
> but who knows, maybe we have an unmanned predator hovering over the city
> doing all this.
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Okiya Omtatah Okoiti
> <omtatah at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Is there anybody familiar with this issue of CCTV cameras within cities?
>> It is reported the we will be spending Kshs 8.5 billion on CCTV cameras
>> within Nairobi, in just 51 locations!?... One expert told me this:
>> "One high tech camera costs about kshs. 60,000. If you multiply this
>> with
>> 51, you get kshs. 3.06m. Assuming each will be controlled by a Mac
>> computer, kshs.250k by 51 you get kshs.12.7m. If you add even 100m for
>> installation and other expenses. There is no way it could amount to
>> kshs.8.5 billion!!!"
>>
>> On the procurement of public goods and services,  the Constitution
>> declares in Article 227(1) that: "When a State organ or any other public
>> entity contracts for goods or
>> services, it shall do so in accordance with a system that is fair,
>> equitable,
>> transparent, competitive and cost-effective."
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Omtatah
>>
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