How Watchman Helped Firm Secure Ksh134M KEMSA Tender
Lucy Mutema and James Mutema, Managing Directors at Petrel Agencies Limited
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An entrepreneur who has been working with KEMSA for 9 years revealed how a watchman helped her bag a Ksh134 million tender.
Appearing before the Public Investments Committee9PIC) on Tuesday, February 16, Lucy Mutema, Managing Director of Petrel Agencies Limited unveiled how her encounter with a watchman during her routine visits to KEMSA worked in her favor. There were very many people and vehicles at the KEMSA gate. I walked in and asked the security officer what was happening and he told me not to waste time but collect tender documents, sign and take them to the procurement, she said.
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James Ndungu (centre) Director at Set Life Medical Solutions with his lawyers when he appeared before the Public Investments Committee on the Special Audit Report on Utilization of Covid-19 Funds at Parliament Buildings, Nairobi, on February 16, 2021. [Elvis Ogin,Standard]
Revelations of how Set Life Medical Solution supplied more than triple the required Covid-19 essentials has exposed the extent to which tenders were issued by Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa) in disregard to procurement processes.
Appearing before the Public Investments Committee (PIC) probing Kemsa, in Nairobi, yesterday, the firm’s Director James Ndung’u had a hard time explaining how the number of non-pharmaceuticals supplies was increased without following due process.
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