Resident petitions EACC to probe Kiambu County’s bleach of Public Procurements Act.
A Kiambu resident has petitioned the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to investigate alleged irregularities
and violations of Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act by the current
Kiambu County Government.
In a petition by Mutema Kuumu that was received on March 1 2018
by the EACC, Kiambu County Assembly and the county government, the petitioner pinpoints
five key departments.
The departments in question are Roads, Transport &
Public Works, Finance & Economic Planning, Water, Environment & Natural
Resources, Trade, Tourism, Industries & Enterprise Development and that of Land,
Housing, Physical Planning & Urban Development.
Kuumu wants the commission to freeze ongoing tender evaluation
for feeder roads alleging influence by the executive and assembly.
He is also appealing to the EACC to audit all persons
employed by the county within the last six months. He alleges that the manner
in which casual workers were contracted was irregular and noncompetitive adding
that there also existed some degree of intimidation of older employees and
withdrawal of mandates forward administrators, whom they say continue drawing
salaries without duty allocation.
He wants the EACC to also audit of all pending and paid
bills within the last six months alleging that there existed some irregular
awarding of tenders to construct water pans in Ndeiya and Nachu wards, and
forcible dissolution of water companies.
The petitioner also allege rampant favouritism and irregular
facilitation in payment of pending bills in the Department of Finance, a
department he says does not have an accounting officer.
He also wants the Commission to investigate alleged inflated
charges to the county Treasury for milk coolers which were actually donated by
the national government through the Kiambu Agriculture department.
Kuumu claims that the county has lost Sh2 million during the
partitioning of rooms to accommodate Deputy Governor James Nyoro’s office which
were later restored back to their original state under the orders by the
governor.
In the Public Works and Roads Department, he claims that the
Githurai Bus Bark tender was awarded without any documentation.
The Lands department has been accused of awarding tenders
without following the due process while embarking on the ongoing renovations at
the Kiambu sub-county offices.
In the Trade department, the petitioner claims that the
contractor who was contracted to do Limuru Market was awarded that contract
before following the due process as even his designs had not yet been approved.
The petitioner also allege that there was an irregular
tender advertisement placed in the dailies on February 11 this year that never
accorded interested parties time to access the tender documents which were even
not available in the official county website.
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