Listers sorry for cross posting: Dear Omtata, Ill begin with a statement I read somewhere: "An elephant is a rat built to government specifications". That Said & Done, the person answerable to us on this matter must, and has to be the PS , Daktari Ndemo. The assumption has to be that Due diligence was followed (or should have been followed) and procurement of these gadgets involved the necessary ministries for technology oversight. That said, I doubt that the procured equipment was of the order that you find on Kimathi street or other local suppliers. As interested parties in the security of the nation, I would assume that only military grade equipment would do, where various organs, NSIS, KDOD & other uniforms would put in requirements for this that would then be added up to determine the scope. Considering our military is a highly secretive one, and that procurements come to be heard of years later, and factoring in the fact that while latest trends show that our learnings have been to the east when procuring hardware, we still maintain a "joined in the hip" relationship with some western leaning nations such as Israel. It would therefore not be inimaginable that some obscure "additions" might have been added onto the mix to do more specific tasks than just "seeing". In which case then securing these 51 installations, getting the relevant persons trained to the right skill set and running interferance would easily hit that mark. but who knows, maybe we have an unmanned predator hovering over the city doing all this. On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Okiya Omtatah Okoiti <omtatah@yahoo.com>wrote:

Is there anybody familiar with this issue of CCTV cameras within cities? It is reported the we will be spending Kshs 8.5 billion on CCTV cameras within Nairobi, in just 51 locations!?... One expert told me this: "One high tech camera costs about kshs. 60,000. If you multiply this with 51, you get kshs. 3.06m. Assuming each will be controlled by a Mac computer, kshs.250k by 51 you get kshs.12.7m. If you add even 100m for installation and other expenses. There is no way it could amount to kshs.8.5 billion!!!"

On the procurement of public goods and services, the Constitution declares in Article 227(1) that: "When a State organ or any other public entity contracts for goods or services, it shall do so in accordance with a system that is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost-effective."

Regards,

Omtatah

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