I have to admit, this is a little strange. I guess my main question is why does a company as large as Google need to solicit money from any business? Let alone Kenyan businesses well outside the scope of it's main customer base?
A local Google office might do some funny things. Using the autonomy they've got. The program in question is confined to Kenya.
The only evidence so far of this program is from Kenya. To state with certainty that it's confined to Kenya at this point would be a stretch.
Because Google needs to grow (shareholders and all that), and with a massive and cheap workforce you can actually pull things like this off (keep in mind it's not PHD's that are doing the cold calling).