By PATRICK LANG'ATMore by this AuthorThe High Court on Wednesday quashed a recommendation by the National Assembly to bar French multinational Idemia —formerly OT-Morpho — from doing business in Kenya for 10 years. The ruling is a huge relief to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) which had contracted the firm to run its key elections management system. Justice John Mativo ruled that the National Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had contravened the law by applying it retrospectively against the French firm that managed the country’s elections management system in the disputed 2017 presidential election. “By recommending the cancellation of contracts, the National Assembly and PAC fell into error and exercised jurisdiction it did not possess. Company law further provides that a foreign firm should have at least one representative in the country.

Source: Daily Nation April 08, 2020 16:07 UTC