“The facts are: Namec Microtronix responded to a tender as published by Usaasa through national newspapers and the Government Gazette. Namec Microtronix subsequently, after being appointed in the panel of service providers to supply and deliver set-top boxes, submitted the name document through following CIPC (the Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission) regulations. The new name is BUA Africa. Once again, this information was provided to Shinn.
“We are worried as the agency that there seem to be a malicious … effort by the same source to punch holes in a process that was clean, fair and objective. First she manufactured a story that ‘some’ possible tenderers did not see the tender because it was advertised during the holiday season — by this she was trying to derail our efforts to migrate this country — and now these lies. We see a behaviour from the same source where government is criticised for failure to migrate the country, but at the same time the same source looks for every excuse you can find to derail the migration. Next she is expected to run to the public protector.
“We will not be intimidated by business people masquerading as MPs,” Usaasa said.
