[kictanet] Cyber crimes | Legal Fees

[S.M. Muraya]

Listers,

How come there is money for legal fees but not for technology
implementation and maintenance?

What happens if/when the DPP charges county officials for Cyber
crimes? Aiding terrorists by neglecting surveillance technology?

2015 audit >>
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/11/22/nairobi-spent-sh1-billion-in-legal-fees-overshot-budget-by-sh5bn_c1459694

The Nairobi government gobbled up Sh1.1 billion in legal fees, the 2014-15
Auditor General’s report says.

2017 audit >>
https://www.nation.co.ke/counties/nairobi/Nairobi-on-the-spot-over-Sh318m-legal-fees/1954174-4964544-13b99uq/index.html

City Hall has once again been put on the spot over the Sh318.4 million in
questionable payments to 12 law firms representing Nairobi.

The legal department is said to have made the payment without adequate
documentary evidence.

During the 2016/17 financial year, the department’s legal costs totalled
Sh645.3 million despite an approved budgetary allocation of just Sh105
million.

The cost was Sh540.26 million higher, 515 percent above the allocation for
that year.


https://www.nation.co.ke/counties/nairobi/Why-half-of-Nairobi-CCTV-cameras-are-not-working/1954174-4967424-f9k3ol/index.html

In September 2012, the then Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development
awarded the contract to M/s Nanjing LES Information Technology Limited, a
Chinese firm.

The project was conceptualised as a security project which would involve
installation of security cameras, vehicle number plate recognition cameras,
rehabilitation of signalised junctions and construction of one main control
centre at Nairobi area police headquarters at Milimani and the redundant
control centre at City Hall Annex.

Six years later, the chief officer confirmed that the project is still
under the Chinese firm’s control, making it impossible to repair and
maintain the cameras.

SH7.2M REPAIRS

Mr Karanja said the company wants to be paid Sh7.2 million to repair the
cameras and hand over the project to the county government.

“We had pledged to pay before the contractor could resume maintenance works
and subsequent handover of the project to us but we are yet to settle the
bill and that is why the contractor has not resumed the project
maintenance,” said Mr Karanja.

But the PAC Chairman Wilfred Odalo faulted the City Hall for assuming
responsibility for damages they did not cause.

In response, Mr Karanja said the pledge was made because of security is a
priority given recent terror attack in the city at the Dusit hotel complex.

In May 2018, it was revealed that 26 of the CCTV cameras — installed in
major roads such as Moi Avenue, Uhuru Highway, Kenyatta Avenue and Tom
Mboya Street — were not working.

Those installed along University Way and at Lusaka Roundabout have also
stopped working after they were damaged by students and a contractor
respectively.

The committee resolved to invite the contractor in its next sitting to shed
more light on the issue.
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