An array of lobby groups under the Concern Citizen Alliance Of Kenya plans to hold peaceful demonstration condemning corruption at the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA).
In a letter dated 7th December, 2019, the Secretary for the alliance Mr, Maurice Ochieng gives a notice to police of the impending demos.
‘We hereby notify all our affiliate members/groups our intention to hold a peaceful demonstrations either this week or early next week to express our displeasure regarding a fraudulent tender number KURA/DEV/HQ/216/2018-2019 of Kenya Shillings Four Hundred and Eighty Six Million, Seven Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Four Hundred and Seventy Nine Cents Sixty (Ksh486, 715,479.60) awarded to AMANTA CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LIMITED, demand the cancellation of the tender and resignation KURA acting Director General Silas Kinoti’, the letter says in part.
Documents shared by this site in an earlier post shows that KURA awarded the tender to Amanta Ltd without due diligence. Amanta has not only forged vehicle logbooks, meaning the vehilces do not exist, but also lied to the Tender Committee about their work experience.
Close scrutiny of the issues shows that senior officials at KURA might’ve shared sensitive brief about the tender with the management of Amanta Ltd, who then packaged the tender knowing hat to quote and what to state as their work experience.
This is high fraud.
This is not the first time KURA is being accused of fraud, road tenders being lucrative, KURA led by Acting Director General have delayed finalizing the Ksh880 million eleven outer ring road footbridges.
The demonstration will either take place this week or next week depending on the mobilization of all the groups under the alliance. Members of Concern Citizen will be joined by those from Name and Shame Networks, Bunge La Wananchi and Baraza La Kitaifa.
It is important to note and as I have stated severally that Kenyans have a right to picket, hold peaceful demonstrations, petition even as given under Article 37 of the constitution.
The group says the demonstration is necessary to ensure that the fight against corruption is not applied selectively.
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The Evidence Of KURA Roads Fraudulent Tender Award – Part 2 of 4
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