Breach of much-touted IFMIS system must serve as wake-up call

The Government's admission that hackers infiltrated the core e-procurement system must, of necessity, raise great concern.

President Uhuru Kenyatta relaunched the Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS) last August with great fanfare. Recently, the President publicly harangued his Principal Secretaries who were yet to migrate procurement in their respective ministries to the IFMIS platform.