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pauloti
#1 Posted : Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:48:00 AM
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for all of you intending to supply the government a bit of advice - dont fall for it because all is not as good as it seems!! i got a small tender to supply hardware materials at the district level from GOK,for which i had to part with almost 30% of the order value just to get the LPO in my name. this was last May. I supplied the order within 10 days,after negotiating a more than generous commission terms with the purchasing officer - almost 60% of my net profit!! and then i have been following up on the payment till last month! i.e. it took them almost one year to pay me! i borrowed from the bank a overdraft at 18% to be able to supply the order,so i had to bear the cost of the interest! and to top it all,i had to part with almost another 30% of the order value to pay the whole bureacracy of accountants to release my cheque. can you believe it despite the cheque being ready for 3 months,no one would release it till they got something. they did not want to consider my profit margins which are very low in hardware. they just said they work on a percentage of the cheque! so all in all after supplying a 1.2 million shilling order,i ended up making 7,772/- profit!!!!! i just ended up making money for government civil servants!! be wary before you venture into these lucrative supply orders!
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deadpoet
#2 Posted : Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:07:00 AM
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Dude,that is a very unfortunate story! To think that all those guaranteed youth tenders will experience the same thing is very worrying.
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pauloti
#3 Posted : Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:41:00 AM
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and this years budget has given the highest allocation to cdf - my my corruption.....i guess everyone is looking for funding for 2012!
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gadj
#4 Posted : Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:48:00 PM
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Its your duty to name and shame these GOK employees,i too does supply to GOK i would like to know the people who did this to you so has to avoid them in future.

In God i trust.
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JkMwatha
#5 Posted : Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:20:00 PM
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@pauloti... Thanks for the tip.

What risks would you be taking.... if you named the depts.?

Would be helpful if such stories/undercover investigations appeared on the News/Media.
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simonkabz
#6 Posted : Friday, July 24, 2009 5:54:00 AM
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Toboa! Wacheni kuficha hii watu!

The only reason why some people are still alive is coz its illegal to shoot them!!
TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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mwenza
#7 Posted : Friday, July 24, 2009 6:53:00 AM
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If its supply of spares......... it definitely has to be CM&TE dept of the MOR

WOULD RATHER DIE FIGHTING 4 MY RIGHTS THAN LIVE FOREVER WITHOUT ANY RIGHTS
IF YOU EXPECT ME TO POST ANYTHING POSITIVE ABOUT ASENO, YOU MAY AS WELL SIT ON A PIN
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pauloti
#8 Posted : Friday, July 24, 2009 8:04:00 AM
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i supplied the ministry of agriculture,but i am not going to name the individuals because they will know who i am,and in nairobi it costs only kshs 20,000/- to kill someone,and i definitely want to live! but the thing is that it is not individuals who are the problem but a whole system! the accounts department at the ministry is rotten to the core including the purchasing officers! i hope the money they made off my sweat will not take them far! but i ask myself with all these agencies like the public procurement agency,is no one checking?? what about the anti corruption people? just to give u an example of one item i supplied - a 4 litre tin of gloss costs around 700/-,after all the bribes i paid the price was inflated to 2754/- on the LPO!! thats ridiculous,the tax payer is losing out and so is the business man,to these fat crooks in the civil service!!
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Grand
#9 Posted : Friday, July 24, 2009 8:43:00 AM
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I hope you have learnt because you also played a role in corruption,you bribed for the prices to be inflated.You should face prosecution as you are an accoplice. Anyway Kenyans are their own undoing.When a vice benefits you-it is ok and when you are on the receiving end you cry wolf.You should realize that if the deal went through as you envisaged it would still have amounted to someone's pain- hardworking tax player who can't get the services from their taxes. Shame on all who abet this monster called corruption!

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pauloti
#10 Posted : Friday, July 24, 2009 9:59:00 AM
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while i agree with you in principle,in the 'real' world things work quite differently. at the end of the day i have a family to feed,bills to pay,bribes to pay to the council,police without which this country does not function. if i did not go for that tender,someone else would have. i agree i am aiding corruption,but at the end of day i have to survive and cannot afford to be principled. but there is a difference - i am forced to pay that bribe to get business. i am not benefitting from that inflated price - those pigs in the ministry are! if i do not part with that bribe i will not get work. otherwise i am quite willing to quote the lowest and win the tender honestly and supply honestly. but i am being forced to do otherwise by our government. yes the tax payer is loosing but i have not gained - the people in government has! so welcome to the real world!!
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