Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko on the spot for awarding a two-year tender worth Ksh. 273 million to an unqualified garbage collection company.
While appearing before the sectoral committee on environment and natural resources on February 19, 2019, CEO of Aende Group Limited Ms. Derrik Aende said her company was awarded the contract in August 2018, just two months after its inception and registration which was against the procurement laws.
According to the guidelines put in place, for a firm to be awarded such a huge tender, it must have a minimum of 5 years of work experience.
She went on to admit that she had already received Ksh 25 million out of the 273 million and that her company wasn’t experienced in garbage collection.
When the committee asked the company’s boss to explain how they managed to acquire such a huge tender in spite of facing dire competition from five other established companies who had been shortlisted for the same but she could not answer.
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