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

Mon Jan 9 06:52:23 EAT 2017

Hi All,

Well now ok about the issues with the IFMIS, can we focus on building a better pool of business system analyst, solution design, quality assurance and project management. These are the key skills missing from the ICT sector, furthermore let's not blame the customer as we all lack a little or any amount of ethics... In reality please look at yourselves in the mirror and reflect when and where you individually have taken short cuts or came up with lame reasons for non delivery. Have created issues for fellow professionals who have won a project on merit. It my prayer that we get out stakeholder management sorted and develop a proper lobby group that is given a representation on the government projects to provide quality assurance and assure the delivery of the project in line with the vision, mission and scope signed off by the key stakeholders. Further provide advice on the
Correctness of the scope which requires industry expertise per vertical. Therefore, my challenge to the group is what are we doing to align the technology with the business needs?

Thanks and have a good week,

Best Regards,
Baiju

> On 9 Jan 2017, at 05:29, Alex Watila via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> 
> good morning,
> IFMIS is in the news again
> 
> 
> State audit finds serious loopholes in Ifmis system  - Daily Nation https://t.co/4dPksjnJBT
> 
> https://twitter.com/dailynation/status/818261005935448064
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 3 Dec 2016 12:08, "S.M. Muraya via kictanet" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> Ngigi,
> 
> Nothing less than Multi Factor authentication is required in Kenya.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication
> 
> Negligence needs to be penalized (we know, in Kenya, prosecution never succeeds where looting succeeds).
> 
> This includes negligence of local talent, not just theft. Kickbacks are often deposited (invested) abroad. As such, foreign firms will always be favored by crooked officials. Developed nations penalize bribery because it compromises national pysche, skills and service delivery levels.
> 
> EACC should also look for good examples to publicize.
> 
> Public officials, organizations, who/which over a 24 month period, have sourced and provided MANNED (conversation recording) hotlines, e-mail addresses, feedback portals and CRM's to measure, and promptly provide citizen services.
> 
> Crooked officials have no problem with payment systems (which increase the funds they collect), but they neglect systems which measure, expose service delivery levels.
> 
> 
> SMM
> 
> "Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city." Prov 16:32
> 
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:45 AM, 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
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> 
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