It seems that there is something of a smear campaign being undertaken throught The Nation against all parties but currently against Leonardo.
Recent reports have highlighted not so pertinent items like bad purchasing by the police in the past [the two-flight hour main rotors purchased for a Mi-17] and the use of fake components linked to the death of the former Internal Security minister and his deputy.
In a later attack on the aircraft supplier The Nation pointed out that chief executives of the manufacturer are in Italian jails over a scandal involving helicopter sales to India and they therefore linked the Nairobi crash and the corruption investigations as added pressure on the company and had led to the name change.
They also stated that the helicopter had only flown for 25 hours in the five months since it was bought.
Not sure if they dreamed up that figure or got it from a misunderstanding but that quoted figure of just 25 hours flight time over the last five months looks suspect. They would surely have needed way more than that to introduce 2-3 local pilots to a very complex airframe?
Has anyone noted those numbers anywhere other than in a news report?