Nairobi, March 16 -- The election agency has revealed that four mobile firms threatened to disconnect its data centre, which was the nerve centre for the results transmission in last year's General Election, over Sh940 million debt.

The consortium of mobile firms -- Safaricom, Airtel, Telkom and Osta Tech/Safa-IEC) Telcom (Thuraya) -- entered into a Sh939,563,682 to provide the Kenya Integrated Election Management System (Kiems) results transmission network for the 2022 General Election.

Under the two deals, Safaricom quoted Sh370.06 million, Airtel (Sh175.6 million, Telkom (Sh191.9 million) and Osta Tech/Safa-IEC) Telcom (Thuraya) Sh201.9 million.

"Towards the end of the fiscal year, the commission engaged Mobile Network Operations (M...