How low and the extent which the top officials will go to deepen their own pockets using public funds continues to depress Kenyans who are not only embarrassed but exhausted for working to satisfy thieves needs who pretend to act like watchmen in the sensitive funds that are rather supposed to see the growth of the nation.
The National Irrigation Board is on the spot over a Sh200 billion tender for a multipurpose dam in Kitui County.
A British firm embroiled in a dispute over the tendering wants the Public Procurement Administrative Review Board (PPARB) to compel the NIB to obey orders stopping it from manipulating the procurement.
Already, the NIB has been fined Sh250,000 by the procurement tribunal for disobeying orders regarding the dispute that has dragged on since May 2017.
General manager Gitonga Mugambi has until tomorrow to pay London-based GBM Engineering Consortium the fine in addition to reinstating the firm’s Request for Proposal, which the NIB had disqualified.
This is after the agency ignored court orders issued on November 13 last year.
The fine is an indictment of how the agency has handled the process and reinforces claims by the bidder that it is protecting some vested interests. Do you believe NIB will change its ways.