Budadiri West MP Nandala Mafabi, who blew the lid on the multi-billion internet deal, says if Huawei Technologies is awarded the contract for the National Backbone Infrastructure project, taxpayers will stand to lose no less than Shs40 billion. Mafabi argues that awarding the contract to the Chinese firm is so suspicious it could only have been with connivance of some top officials in government. The National Information Technology Authority (NITA) has some explaining to do and Parliament wants to get to the bottom of how procurement the agency’s fourth phase of National Backbone infrastructure (NBI) project was handled because ‘there…
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