Following the recent Google PR disaster involving Kenyan start-up, Mocality over allegations of data scraping and misrepresentation, Google has reportedly fired its Country Lead for Kenya, Olga Arara-Kimani, according to several local tech blogs.
In mid-January, Google’s Kenyan operation was caught with evidence of scraping Mocality’s database of businesses and lying about its relationship with Mocality while contacting those businesses.
Google had since apologised to Mocality saying that they were “mortified” by the anti-competition allegations and pledged to investigate and take necessary action.
Last Friday, Google’s VP for EMEA, Nelson Mattos said that “appropriate action” had been taken. According to Mattos:
“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,”he posted on his Google+ page.
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