Okiya Omtata will save us from this CA mischief.

It's mischief whichever way you look at it.

See, between blacklisting unregistered numbers used on the networks and 'counterfeit' devices, which one is more urgent? Counterfeit devices use SIM cards, but it's the SIM cards that can be registered to citizens and be traced. Why not just ask the MNOs to effect the regulation barring unregistered SIM cards and let Kenyans be? Counterfeits come in through the borders (Port, Airports) where KRA and Police are complicit in 'eating' an letting them pass!

Another thing, CA should have notified Kenyans that this was in the works, and should have been transparent enough to publish its capabilities. It did not. So, the force with which the DG is going about this only reeks of an (quiet) executive order that he and his board can't brush off, especially when it's tagged with 'national security' label.

This device will be used to spy on people, block their devices, block mobile communications the way M7 and others did. Let's sit and watch, but I still hope Omtatah and the Judiciary will save Kenyans.

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