Laptops Tender: High Court Nullifies

[Omollo]

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If only Jubilee tried to avoid corruption in the tendering process! If only they let the process run regardless of the ethnicity of the bidders! If only they found a different way of raising campaign cash! Some of their projects could make an real change.

Unfortunately, every project is mired in corruption! They will re-tender, engage in corruption and see it cancelled again. We have the Coal issue joining the long list

http://www.nation.co.ke/news/High-Court-nullifies-laptops-tender/-/1056/2463916/-/4pgvn6z/-/index.html

High Court stops Sh174 billion tender for coal project

The fight over a multi-billion-shilling tender to build a coal power plant yesterday took a new twist after the High Court barred a Gulf consortium and the Government from entering into any agreement. The directive was issued following a petition filed before Justice Mumbi Ngugi by one of the bidders seeking to have the whole process stopped, citing irregularities.

In the case filed by Hebei Construction Investment Group (HCIG), the court heard that the Sh174 billion tender for construction of a coal plant, which is a part of the Lamu Port South Sudan and Ethiopia Transport corridor ( Lapsset) project, was irregular and unfair to the bidders who had qualified in the preliminary stage of the process.

The court ordered that no agreement should be entered between the Gulf consortium and the Government until November 21, this year, when the court will make a ruling. HCIG, through its lawyers Waweru Gatonye and Elisha Ongoya, told the court that Gulf Energy, which clinched the deal, had not qualified at the preliminary stages of the bidding and its inclusion in the final process was unfair to the other competitors.

While rising a preliminary objection, Gulf Energy through its lawyer Kimani Kiragu told the court that the petition was influenced by a commercial dispute and thus ought to have been in the commercial courts.

Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000135965/court-stops-sh174-billion-tender-for-coal-project

[RV Pundit]

They messed it up from the get go.

[Mintos]

yaani a whole 1.4 birrion as kick back. waa!

[veritas]

They messed it up by not evn doing an intelligent research on community needs. I hope this ruling is upheld for awhile for the safety of kids with laptops or not even seeing laptops at all. I smell another Anglo fleecing in "pet projects"

[RV Pundit]

Yes that was the cut. I think Centum (Kirubi) and allegedly Ruto(via his PS) were involved in one side (Haier deal with centum to locally assemble and distribute them)....while Kaimenyi were involved with other deals. Lots of corruption going on

yaani a whole 1.4 birrion as kick back. waa!

[Olekoima]

It will be a whole five years before we see a single Laptop. Even the kids got tired waiting, they are not asking questions anymore.

[TheDayTheDollarDies]

Thank God. I hope another laptop scnadal comes up soon so that the whole project is nullified. Waste of time.

[gout]

it is likely that soon a shipment of 'laptops' will land one of these days...given ck=uk =centum & ruto have eaten there is no way the tender will go any other way 

[RV Pundit]

I think part of education (equipping schools) should be devolved. National Gov should deal with capitation(for every student or pupil), teachers,policy and exams. Only ECDE is now devolved.

Counties are best placed to know whether to prioritise laptops (for example in Nairobi) or basic structures in turkana. Some schools with electricity are ready for laptops..some not.

If we split 24B(laptops) and 10B(for books); That is already 34B; nearly every county can get an extra 1B for building schools; or each school assuming an average of 300 schools per county; could be get significant funding;

Of course UhuRuto and thugs like Centum want to keep 34B so they can skim off 3.4B (10%) of the deal.

We have to keep fighting the corrupt gangs in National Gov....local gangs in counties should be dealt at county level.