What the various reports said
Controller and Auditor-General (E.N Mwai)
Some of the suppliers and financiers are not registered in the countries they have claimed to be domiciled and at the given addresses. This implies that they may not be bona fide trading/financing firms. The agreements signed with such firms may therefore be null and void.
Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission
No due diligence was undertaken to ascertain the ability and capacity of the suppliers to deliver. Postal Corporation of Kenya and the Ministry of Transport and Communication failed to establish the identity of the people the government was getting into contract with. The contracts appear to have been executed by shadowy figures whose identities cannot be firmly established.
The project was conceived by PCK yet the Ministry of Transport and Communication inexplicably seized the negotiations. The Ministry drew the contract terms and executed the project. There is no evidence that this was ever disclosed to the Board of PCK for approval. In fact, the approval by the Board was only sought after the contract had already been signed.
This contract was single sourced, a clear contravention of Kenya’s procurement laws. Its price was massively inflated to benefit bureaucrats and the project’s architects. And the companies and individuals at the centre of it misrepresented themselves
Pricewatershousecoopers Report
Government has not been proactive in prosecuting the public officers who clearly were responsible fr contraventions in public expenditure.
We don’t understand why the AG’s office is unable to provide better support to the lawyers representing GoK on the Postal corporation of Kenya bandwith case in London … resulting in the lapsing of mediation process schedule agreed by the lawyers.
Authorities didn’t provide the lawyers with all relevant documents.
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