milken wrote:@VituVingiSana
This industry is so screwed. From the word go NOCK was baited to fail but they swallowed it Hook, line, and sinker.
NOCK is blaming everyone else but from what I have read:
1) NOCK won the contract/tender to import 2 loads of AGO
2) It missed the delivery of #1 [supposed to be 19 Feb 2011]
3) Kenya Shell [& other OMCs] claim that NOCK did not tell them of the delay. Then lenga'd them again until OMCs [including Shell] wrote to MoE asking WTF?
4) NOCK came out saying #1 will be delivered 1-3 March & #2 is on schedule.
5) Shell (obviously) did not believe NOCK & canceled its share. NOCK could have 'absorbed' it or asked others within the industry to share Shell's quota.
6) NOCK canceled the Tender. Hold on... Did NOCK really contract for the 2 shipments [#1 on the sea & the #2 ready for delivery] or they are using Shell cancellation as a bluff?
IMHO, NOCK had not even bought the AGO. They screwed up OR someone at MoE [& cronies] wanted to take a cut!
Losers: TAXPAYERS!!! Coz NOCK is 100% owned by us the taxpayers!
Winners: kiraitu, nyoike & their friends!
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett