When you google the price of a rifle sling from your google search bar, you would find out that, even in the largest online businesses such as Alibaba and Amazon, the price ranges between $8- 30. But our prisons are purchasing them at Ksh.5000 which is equivalent to $50. while the taxpayer is wallowing in a quagmire of poverty, the top Government bodies “wanakula nyama” .
Reacting to the current state of corruption in Kenya, Netizens took it to social media and strongly condemned the heightened embezzlement of public funds. someone said that paying tax in Kenya is a crime. it’s like sponsoring a criminal affair. true to her words, this is how various ministries are using our tax.
Corruption In our Prisons
In the ongoing war n graft, (EACC) on Thursday revealed that it foiled an attempted misuse of Ksh.4.8 billion of taxpayers’ money at the Prisons Department.
According to EACC boss Twalib Mbarak, the contract was approved through shortcuts and no correct procedure was followed, flouting procurement rules by committing payments of 80% upfront within 30 days before
The contract details show that there was to be the supply of machine guns at a cost of Ksh.478 million.
In the assorted contracts, one company was awarded the tender to supply bullet proof vests, at a cost of Ksh.2.2 billion and the payments were stopped when they were just about to leave the ministry’s account to the companies.
Procurement of G3 rifles was also in question, with the Prisons approving a questionable payment of Ksh.597 million for the same.
In the foiled payments, Ksh.342 million was to be paid for the supply of full target rifles, a contract that EACC flagged.
Pistols worth Ksh.158 million shillings, were also to be supplied through payments to what the EACC calls questionable entities.
A bigger shocker, was the intended supply of rifle slings, at a cost Ksh.200 million in which EACC says prices were exaggerated from Ksh.200 to Ksh.5,000 a piece. I mean one rifle sling was to cost
An additional Ksh.242 million was to be paid to unspecified entities.
According to EACC, all these payments had not been budgeted for.