Is it possible that the Jubilee Government is scuttling the effort to buy the laptops, a game of musical chairs because it is not committed to buying the said laptops? Lawsuits, counter-lawsuit, delays, … sounds fishy.
By John Walubengo
More by this AuthorForget the Laptop hypothetical view we discussed a few weeks ago – it is now official from the Public Procurement Administrative Review Board (PPARB) that something was not right with the tendering process. With close to Ksh 30Billlion at stake, Kenyans would have been too ambitious to imagine the process would be smooth sailing.
With the Ethic and Anti-Corruption agency (EACC) vowing to join the action, it is not too early to conclude that money may have changed hands; that is some people, somewhere ate and perhaps ate big
On his way to winning the presidential election in 1992, Bill Clinton proclaimed “Its the economy, stupid!” as a way of focusing the electorate on the real issue. To the Kenyan child and parent who still believes that this project is about Lap-tops, I politely say to them “It’s about the election money, stupid!”
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