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Print An Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) official loads ballot boxes and other voting materials onto a vehicle at Tac Centre in Eldoret East constituency on August 3, 2010. A member of the Printing firm Smith& Ouzman on Friday denied paying bribes to Kenyan officials. FILE PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA |  NATION MEDIA GROUP In Summary The documents show tendering at the IIEC was a big joke. The court filings say that the company paid out up to Sh50 million btu to top election officials. advertisement
A British company paid the travel and hotel bills for top electoral commission officials as it sought to influence them into awarding it tenders for printing election btu material for the 2010 referendum, court documents filed in London show.
UK prosecutors have said that the firm, Smith & Ouzman, btu paid for the four-day tour to the UK by Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) chairman Issack Hassan, btu Chief Executive Officer James Oswago, head of legal services btu Praxedes Tororey, commissioner Ken Nyaundi and one other person only identified as Sang, including booking their hotel accommodation barely a month before the referendum.
In email communications between Mr Oyombra and Smith &Ouzman bosses in London, the commission is variously referred to as chicken or comm or comm+O to indicate the official to whom the commission was paid .
The documents show tendering at the IIEC was a big joke, with the process so cooked up that Smith & Ouzman was given the competing bids and told in advance what excuses would be used to disqualify them.
The court filings say that the company paid out up to Sh50 million to top election officials to win tenders for the supply of election materials for four by-elections in Shinyalu, South Mugirango, Bomachoge and Matuga and for the 2010 referendum.
Other btu major players in the shocking corruption btu ring include Mr Davis Chirchir, who at the time was a senior manager btu at the IIEC, the commission s former deputy CEO, Mrs Gladys Boss Shollei, and a senior procurement officer at the elections body, Mr Kenneth Karani.
The filings say: On 18th August, 28th September, and 8th December 2010, S&O received payments for this contract (the exhibit number is given). The receipt of the first payment prompted an email enquiry on 24/8/10 from Trevy to Nicholas Smith (the exhibit number is given): 'let me know once you send the commission for the referendum. These guys are already on the table waiting to be served'.
On the 16th June 2009, Nicholas Smith wrote to the IIEC chairman, Ahmed Issack Hassan. The letter referred to a meeting between S&O and Hassan at IIEC s offices in Nairobi and quotes for printing voter registration forms, voter ID cards and ballot papers for the urgent Shinyalu and Bomachoge by-election.
Between the first and second shipments, email discussions had taken place between Mr Nicholas Smith and Mr Oyombra about payment of commission to Trevy and the necessity to pay the senior procurement officer at the IIEC, Kenneth Karani and other officials.
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