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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: MOON Ki on December 04, 2014, 01:03:54 AM
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`The Public Investments Committee has recommended the cancellation of a Sh3.6 billion contract given to a consortium headed by a Chinese company to supervise the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway.
It has also recommended to the House that top managers at the Kenya Railway Corporation, led by managing director Atanas Maina, be investigated by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission for possible corruption in the tender award.
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In the end they said it was “a tender that was cleverly clothed with due process of law but whose outcome was determined before it began.”
The committee argued that the tender committee also bent the rules and lowered some mandatory and crucial technical requirements in the tender documents to suit the consortium."
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http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Cancel-rail-deal-says-House-team/-/996/2543718/-/p47ppmz/-/index.html
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Transport Cabinet Secretary would have them continue doing the work. Even if they are not qualified. Because they have already started.
We know they are laying an egg. Let them finish laying it. would be the gist of Michael Kamau's suggestion.
When he met the committee in the course of the investigations, Transport Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau warned of the legal crisis that could result if the consortium is stopped from doing its work.
“The order to commence has already been given. We can look at (ways) administratively of telling them how to go about things. Legally, we can’t tell them to stop,” Mr Kamau said in July.
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Legally the committee can stop allocating money for pmt
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Is there a clean contract issued anywhere in kenya..either in county or nation gov or private sector..most likely not. This rot is so deep seated.
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Legally the committee can stop allocating money for pmt
Why don't they do that then? Why don't they put out numbers and details for turkey-gate llike the Brits did for chicken gate?
My hunch is they will do what they need to do, to make them get a piece of the turkey themselves, if only to make them back off. Including vague recommendations that they know will go nowhere.
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This is what has taken Kenya to the brink. I foresee National Bankruptcy. The IMF will swing in to action and pulverize the remains. I can't see how these mandarins will take an 80% salary cut in salaries and personnel (retrenchment). Moi managed to get through with hardships and by the time he was leaving had set the firm basis for growth. Instead Kibaki came and reversed it all. The boom is over if you ask me. We have seen this in Spain. Boom financed by debt.
The stupidity is driven by the promise of oil revenues. What a joke!
Thatcher thought she could do it with the North Sea Oil. The oil wells ran dry. Norway had done the same in the 80s and paid heavily years later. They learned and stopped dependency on oil. Oil can only help a country that is willing to support and grow traditional industries. It is a wonderful catalyst. Otherwise you end up like Libya and Saudi Arabia. I see Kenya ending up like Venezuela in the 80s.
Is there a clean contract issued anywhere in kenya..either in county or nation gov or private sector..most likely not. This rot is so deep seated.
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Some MPs have developed cold feet. They thought they were signing an attendance sheet for payment of their sitting allowances. They were not expecting to do anything consequential. This is not what they had bargained for.
Some MPs said they were tricked into signing the report.
They said they signed a list assuming it was the usual attendance sheet for payment of allowances.
“When a second sheet was brought, I asked what it was and was told it was the attendance sheet and that the earlier one was for the adoption of the report,” said an MP.
Members of the Public Investment Committee have disowned a report on the award of a contract for supervising the standard gauge railway.
The report was tabled in the National Assembly on Tuesday, causing outrage as MPs on PIC demanded its withdrawal.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/MPs-deny-railway-tender-report/-/1056/2545124/-/je4xpq/-/index.html (http://www.nation.co.ke/news/MPs-deny-railway-tender-report/-/1056/2545124/-/je4xpq/-/index.html)