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Google Fires Kenya Lead Over Mocality
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Google has reportedly fired its Kenya lead, Olga Arara-Kimani, over a fraudulent use of Mocality’s data. Nairobitech reported:
“The Google Mocality saga has drawn its first casualties. Kenya country lead for Google, Olga Arara-Kimani formerly of Safaricom has been let go by the company. Also axed is a technical guy in Zurich… It is not clear how Olga was picked for the fall but as one observer noted, sometimes a sacrificial lamb has to be found for the brand name to weather the storm.”
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Nelson Mattos, who had earlier made a statement expressing the company’s mortification over the situation, released a bland, generic statement yesterday.
“We’ve concluded our investigation into the serious allegations about our use of data from Mocality’s website in Kenya. We’re very sorry this happened. We’ve taken appropriate action with the people involved and made changes in our operations to ensure this doesn’t occur again.”
A Google global PR representative, who insisted on talking to me after my first post on the subject, assured me that we would be given a full rundown of the investigation after it was complete. Last night, I was told me Mattos’s post was their only “on-the-record” statement. Not sure, if the comments on Mattos’s Google+ page are representative, that this was the right tack to take.
We’ll let you know if they reverse course and make a further statement, as some African tech blogs are reporting.
Other sources: TechMTAA
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