<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-210aaf7b-d55f-25c4-deec-d57cc986236e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Is it possible that the Jubilee Government is scuttling the effort to buy the laptops, a game of musical chairs because it is not committed to buying the said laptops? Lawsuits, counter-lawsuit, delays, … sounds fishy.</span></p>

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<p style="margin:0px 0px 15.600000000000001px;color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:17px;font-family:Georgia,'ITC Century W01 Light';line-height:25px">Forget the <a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/The-Laptop-Project----a-hypothetical-perspective/-/1959700/2210314/-/nxjl5fz/-/index.html" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(41,171,226)">Laptop hypothetical view</a> we discussed a few weeks ago – it is now official from the <a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Laptop-tender-price-was-topped-up-by-Sh1-4b--rules-review-board/-/1056/2246786/-/u94lq9z/-/index.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(41,171,226)">Public Procurement Administrative Review Board</a> (PPARB) that something was not right with the tendering process. With close to Ksh 30Billlion at stake, Kenyans would have been too ambitious to imagine the process would be smooth sailing.</p>

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With the Ethic and Anti-Corruption agency (EACC) vowing to join the action, it is not too early to conclude that money may have changed hands; that is some people, somewhere ate and perhaps ate big</p></div></div><div><br>

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On his way to winning the presidential election in 1992, Bill Clinton proclaimed “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_the_economy,_stupid" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(41,171,226)">Its the economy, stupid</a>!” as a way of focusing the electorate on the real issue.  To the Kenyan child and parent who still believes that this project is about Lap-tops, I politely say to them “It’s about the election money, stupid!” </p>

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more: <a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/Laptop-Project---who-ate-what-when/-/1959700/2248206/-/cn6f2u/-/index.html">http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/Laptop-Project---who-ate-what-when/-/1959700/2248206/-/cn6f2u/-/index.html</a></p>

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Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya<br><a href="http://twitter.com/lordmwesh">twitter.com/lordmwesh</a><br><br></div>
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