Why eCitizen empire is under scrutiny

World Bank bans Webmasters Kenya for five years.[Courtesy]

For a decade, James Ayugi was the face of Kenya’s digital revolution, the man whose company, Webmasters Kenya Ltd, built the eCitizen platform that brought government services to millions of Kenyans.

But last week, the World Bank published a decision that has shattered the company’s international ambitions and laid bare what investigators described as a pattern of deception that reached far beyond Kenya’s borders.