Kenya's proposed security surveillance project to curb terrorism in the country has been temporarily put on hold to pave way for investigations.  

The project was initially meant to be spearheaded by telecoms giant, Safaricom, following a decision to award the tender to the telco.  

However, on Thursday Kenya's parliamentary house committee on national security decided to put on hold the awarding of the tender to Safaricom.

The committee summoned the cabinet secretary in the ministry of Interior Security and Coordination of National Government, Joseph Ole Lenku and put forth questions that have clouded the awarding of the tender to the telecoms giant.

"We are not at this stage satisfied that we have gotten the correct information for us to give it a clean bill of health and for the house to approve," Asman Kamama the chairman of the committee told media on Thursday.

"Even if we have that urgency, everything must be above board,” Kamama said.

The committee also questioned the coverage of the Safaricom network to capture the whole country. They noticed that there are many areas in the country where Safaricom does not have a good signal.

The committee will sit for the next 10 days to find out if due process was followed and the capability of the telecom company to deliver a secure service.

This blow comes after two activists went to court to challenge the government’s decision to single source the security contract to Safaricom.