[kictanet] KISERO: Kenya’s corruption tsars have perfected looting through Ifmis - Daily Nation

[Collins Areba]

Dead wrong Waithaka.

Its always People people people!

Even the best designed systems assume a certain minimum threshold of human
order and decency.

When the first order of business when a system is implemented is a
discussion to brainstorm how to "beat the system", we are way below that
threshold.

On 2 Dec 2016 09:45, "Waithaka Ngigi via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Ali,
>
> It's also time to put‎ professional blame squarely where it lies.
>
> Any system tasked with moving *huge* sums of money and that does not come
> with at least Two-Factor authentication be *default* is either:
> 1. A very, very bad implementation
> 2. ‎Intentionally left unsecure to allow looting.
>
> Blaming users & ethics in our users is just looking for  scapegoats.
> Citibank, Stanchart & other Financial Institutions do not rely on user
> ethics when using their online banking platforms. You key in your password,
> for every transaction, you confirm using your 2FA Code, ensuring it's only
> you, or someone you gave your physical 2FA card that can authenticate that
> transaction.
>
> And that's before you put in anti-laundering functionality, which should
> catch most of those transactions dead in their tracks if well implemented.
> E.g before payment of sums above KSH 100m cross-check on company
> registration date, if less than 1 year, flag! Common addresses, Directors
> btn different firms.
>
> ‎Online payments in Kenya have been with us since the early 2000s, why is
> it we've never heard complaints from the Banks that billions are being lost
> through basic identity fraud similar to IFMIS.
>
> Don't blame the Kenyan people, blame lies squarely with the Systems we
> have put in place.
>
> Waithaka Ngigi
>
> Alliance Technologies
> www.at.co.ke
> *From: *Ali Hussein via kictanet
> *Sent: *Friday, December 2, 2016 5:33 AM
> *To: *Ngigi Waithaka
> *Reply To: *KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> *Cc: *Ali Hussein
> *Subject: *[kictanet] KISERO: Kenya’s corruption tsars have perfected
> looting through Ifmis - Daily Nation
>
> Listers
>
> Related to to the discussion of 'reigning in' quacks in the ICT Sector how
> do you explain the fiasco that is IFMIS?
>
> Except from the article:-
>
> In theory, the Ifmis system we have is based on Oracle E-Business Suite,
> an accounting package developed by Oracle of the USA. In reality, what is
> in place is a product of conspiracies between crafty government officials
> and local rent-seeking software merchants.
>
> Through highly inflated and ill-conceived customisation and re-engineering
> projects, the merchants have colluded with public officials to create a
> mongrel of the original Oracle E-Business Suite.
>
> This is the system at the heart of corruption in the public sector.
> http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenya-corruption-
> tsars-have-perfected-looting-through-Ifmis/440808-3469632-kg5rbv/
>
> So if we were to talk this discussion a step further:-
>
> 1. The customization of an Oracle E-Business Suite cannot be done by a
> 'quack' who isn't a Certified Oracle Software Engineer.
>
> 2. The customization must be approved by the client and mapped with the
> business processes mutually agreed by the vendor and the customer. In this
> case the government.
>
> A pig is a pig even if you apply lipstick on it. Let's call this what it
> is - Corruption. Period. Perpetuated in this case by the client and using
> qualified IT Professionals. We in the industry must call out the ones who
> collude to fleece this country instead of chasing a red herring in the name
> of 'quacks'!
>
> *Ali Hussein*
> *Principal*
> *Hussein & Associates*
> +254 0713 601113
>
> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>
> Skype: abu-jomo
>
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>
>
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>
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