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Rank: Chief Joined: 5/9/2007 Posts: 13,095
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Eish...you guys are just highlighting only the dark side. Kindly let us also hear on what have been delivered too Eg Uwezo fund... Free Maternity...County Funds na zingine mingi...
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/30/2013 Posts: 659
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washiku wrote:Eish...you guys are just highlighting only the dark side. Kindly let us also hear on what have been delivered too Eg Uwezo fund... Free Maternity...County Funds na zingine mingi... The only thing that none of the other guys promised and Jubilee has delivered so far is free maternity. Uwezo fund kila mtu alikuwa anasema atapatiana. County funds iko kwa sheria so kila mtu had to. What is being highlighted is what Jubilee peke yao wali ahidi e.g. WiFi, free kwanza. Tinga tinga 10,000, Tech parks in every county or was in constituency? But hamna haraka tutasubiri.....  If you stay ready, no need to get ready.
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Rank: User Joined: 8/15/2013 Posts: 13,237 Location: Vacuum
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[url=http://the-star.co.ke/news/article-154634/olive-sample-laptop-came-haier]THE sample laptop provided by Indian company Olive to the Ministry of Education was manufactured by its Chinese rival, according to an informed source. Last Friday Education secretary Jacob Kaimenyi awarded Olive a Sh24.6 billion tender to supply 1.2 million laptops to this year's P1 school entrants. However the original tender documents specified that the successful supplier had to be an 'Original Equipment Manufacturer'. If Olive is not a manufacturer, it would not be eligible under the terms of the laptop tender. In January, Olive emailed ECS, a Haier associate company, to see if they could manufacture the laptops for them. Now it appears that the specimen laptop supplied last year by Olive to the Ministry of Education as part of the tender was in fact manufactured by Haier. The laptop was branded Olive but came as a sample from the India office of chip manufacturer Intel. Olive representatives in Nairobi yesterday said they were in meetings but would respond to the Star later. The 'Classmate' type laptop is only manufactured at two places in China, either at Haier itself or at the Haier manufacturing line at ECS in Suzhou, a company that is 48 percent owned by Haier. In an apparent confirmation that it does not manufacture laptops, the Olive website advertises various products that it distributes including the X107 laptop "made by Haier and for laptops launched under OLIVE brand". Olive describes itself as a "service provider" selling customised products to telecom operators. It says it has presence in 23 countries, has sold 20 million devices worldwide since it was founded in 2006, and employs “11 to 25 people.” Haier is a far bigger company with 82,000 employees and had a turnover of over $25 billion last year. It has done e-education projects in 11 countries around the world including Argentina, Cuba, Guyana, Malaysia, Macedonia, Cote d'Ivoire and Mongolia. In April 2013, Haier signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Centum, an investment company owned by Mt Kenya business and 28 percent by government, to build a computer assembly plant in Kenya. The investment, which would have generated 300 jobs, has now been put on hold. Hewlett Packard is based in Palo Alto, California, and has been the world's leading PC manufacturer since 2007. Several individuals, including a senior family member and a top TNA politician, have reportedly given President Uhuru Kenyatta copies of the January email from Olive requesting ECS to manufacture their laptops, according to unconfirmed reports. Uhuru is now apparently reviewing the tender award, Olive reportedly also contacted China New Century Optronics in November 2013 to build the laptops. However China Optronics has not built laptops before, only low-end mobile phones and tablets, and has never bought Intel processors before. The Kenyan tender specifies Intel processors must be used in the laptops After the 'best and final offer" in January, Olive had quoted US$217 per laptop and its two shortlisted rivals HP and Haier $219 and $220 respectively. The informed source was sceptical that Olive could supply below $250 as HP and Haier both have volume discounts for purchasing Intel chips which Olive would not enjoy. On Friday, Kaimenyi said the government expects the first batch of the 400,000 laptops in the first quarter of this year. He said government cannot react to rumours that Olive does not manufacture laptops. He said that government dispatched officers to do due diligence on Olive and they came up "with good tidings." - See more at: http://the-star.co.ke/ne...er#sthash.tTt7Ficy.dpuf[/url] If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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The first time i heard Kaimenyi announce that the tender had gone to an Indian company,i shuddered.It was not for nothing.SAD!!! Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/7/2012 Posts: 11,921
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Laptops speaking chinese and indian. Let laptops be, accept and move on. Next? In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins - cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later - H Geneen
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/17/2008 Posts: 23,365 Location: Nairobi
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The laptops were never a priority for Kenya but heck people had eat!!!! ..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/25/2013 Posts: 402
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Njung'e wrote:The first time i heard Kaimenyi announce that the tender had gone to an Indian company,i shuddered.It was not for nothing.SAD!!! Are you serious? Of course this is a scandal to be. If you thought otherwise then you are not paying attention. What did you expect to happen?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,330 Location: Masada
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Ole Lenku wrote:Njung'e wrote:The first time i heard Kaimenyi announce that the tender had gone to an Indian company,i shuddered.It was not for nothing.SAD!!! Are you serious? Of course this is a scandal to be. If you thought otherwise then you are not paying attention. What did you expect to happen? Corruption in Kenya will only stop when we as a people stop eating...ni hayo tu! A compay with 11 employees being awarded KES 25Billion, OKEI!!!! Portfolio: Sold
You know you've made it when you get a parking space for your yatcht.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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An Indian company?.....I was close to an Indian contractor for some years way back and the impression left on me about any Indian is that they are CROOKS!! Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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Pedes wrote:washiku wrote:Eish...you guys are just highlighting only the dark side. Kindly let us also hear on what have been delivered too Eg Uwezo fund... Free Maternity...County Funds na zingine mingi... The only thing that none of the other guys promised and Jubilee has delivered so far is free maternity. Uwezo fund kila mtu alikuwa anasema atapatiana. County funds iko kwa sheria so kila mtu had to. What is being highlighted is what Jubilee peke yao wali ahidi e.g. WiFi, free kwanza. Tinga tinga 10,000, Tech parks in every county or was in constituency? But hamna haraka tutasubiri..... Ati tinga 10 sousands? Si tu- subtract zile za Mutua na Ratsanga juu we cannot duplicate efforts...... balance 9 sousands n sth. TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/2/2009 Posts: 2,458 Location: Nairobi
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Hii tender plus implementation wapatie Keter (read Bill wailer) apunguze kilio na kelele, and then they can nail him for it when it fails flat.
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/25/2013 Posts: 402
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/7/2012 Posts: 11,921
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Free maternity, sawa sawa tu!  In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins - cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later - H Geneen
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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Rank: User Joined: 8/15/2013 Posts: 13,237 Location: Vacuum
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President Kenyatta has launched a crackdown against top civil servants he believes are engaging in corruption at the presidency, government officials said on Tuesday. Among those targeted in the crackdown are four top officials, all above the level of section heads, who are being accused of constituting a cartel to manipulate multi-billion shilling contracts. Mr Kenyatta has also shuffled the working arrangements of other key officials, bringing Mr Francis Kimemia, the Secretary to the Cabinet, to State House. Mr Kimemia had been working from Harambee House, using the same office he had when he was Head of Public Service. The Chief of Staff and Head of Public Service, Mr Joseph Kinyua, will work three days a week from Harambee House in what is being seen as an effort to take a firmer grip of senior government officials. His main office is at State House. The officials said the targeted civil servants have been influencing procurement in various ministries and deciding who is to get top jobs. “There is a seriously entrenched group that has had long interest in government. They are so deep in government that nothing can happen without them having their hands on it,” a source familiar with State House thinking told the Nation. This came as the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) prepared to arrest Central Bank of Kenya Governor Njuguna Ndung’u to answer abuse of office allegations over a Sh1.2 billion security tender at the bank. The officials said some key people in the Jubilee administration have been taken aback by the entrenchment of corruption cartels in government, made up of businessmen working in cahoots with senior civil servants. Officials claim that the cartel had a hand in various lucrative government contracts involving multi-billion shillings such as Anglo Leasing, police vehicles and communication and the recent controversy over the construction of the standard gauge railway. “It is a small group of people who have taken advantage of the Internal Security budget to influence most of the tenders in government. They do it with business people who are outside government,” a source familiar with State House issues said. In the last five days, Mr Kenyatta and his deputy, Mr William Ruto, have warned that they will sack civil servants who engage in corruption regardless of their level in government. Mr Kenyatta accused senior public officers in his own office, saying, he would start with them to show his resolve to break the cartel. He fired the warning shot when he launched the first batch of 1,200 vehicles leased for the police. “I wish to state that the government will not tolerate corrupt public officers. The time for transformation has come and those who are not ready to change should leave and give a chance to others willing to serve,” he said. “For those who are not ready to change, we shall not plead with you any more.” At the same function, Mr Ruto appeared to allude to the extent of corruption in procurement when he wondered why vehicles cost more when they are bought by government. “One cannot explain why government pays more for a vehicle from certain dealers than individual buyers, yet government buys in bulk and should therefore enjoy economies of scale,” Mr Ruto said. Government tenders worth Sh461.8 billion are currently embroiled in controversy, with questions being asked about the procedures followed in awarding them. They include the Sh425 billion standard gauge railway, the Sh22 billion school laptops project, the Sh13 billion National Social Security Fund tender involving Tassia scheme and Hazina Towers and the estimated Sh1.8 billion paid annually to ghost workers on the government’s payroll. Sources claimed that the misuse of funds meant for security was the reason President Kenyatta established the Nairobi Metropolitan Command as a wing of the Kenya Defence Forces to deal with terrorism, drug trafficking and urban crimes because operations by the Kenya Police Service were failing to achieve the target. “Police operations have largely failed because not all money meant for operations is utilised. The big guys will take out their share first. However, if you take the military there, they succeed,” the source said. ASSIGNING POLICE WORK Assigning police work to the military on internal matters is fraught with risk, as evidenced by the rescue operation at Westgate last year during which a police officer was killed by friendly fire and the mall looted. Jubilee has come under pressure to deal with emerging corruption. Nearly three weeks ago, Uongozi, an advocacy group associated with former anti-corruption PS John Githongo and former Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission boss PLO Lumumba, wrote an open letter to the President asking him to suspend the railway project until all questions that have been raised over the tender are answered. If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/7/2012 Posts: 11,921
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^^^^^ Hiyo ni cheap talk and business as usual. Kwancha hiyo ya Kimemia going to statehouse ndiye mbaya zaidi ..... middleman in the making! And this laptop tender is 28b, 24b ama 22b ... bring confusion then strike! In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins - cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later - H Geneen
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/17/2008 Posts: 23,365 Location: Nairobi
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When you have stollen all the money, how can can you achieve anything on your manisfesto that requires money after that? ..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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Rank: User Joined: 8/15/2013 Posts: 13,237 Location: Vacuum
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Nairobi, Kenya: A fresh twist has emerged in the controversial Sh327 billion railway project, with doubts over which firm the Government is dealing with. MPs heard yesterday that there is a local company registered under the same name as that of China Road and Bridge Corporation, which the Government announced it had given the contract to. Registrar of Companies Bernice Gachegu told the National Assembly’s Public Investment Committee (PIC) that she discovered in her records last week that two Kenyans had registered a company under the name China Road and Bridge Kenya Ltd in 2008. The Chinese-owned firm was Kenya Ltd in 2008. The Chinese-owned firm was registered as a foreign company in 1984 with 10 Chinese directors. Directors of the Kenya-owned company are Peter Maingi Gatere and Leonard Mwangi Ndung’u, but no further details about them were revealed yesterday, except that their office is registered in Westlands, Nairobi. Read more at: http://standardmedia.co....n-firms-in-rail-project
If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/30/2013 Posts: 659
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Swenani wrote:Nairobi, Kenya: A fresh twist has emerged in the controversial Sh327 billion railway project, with doubts over which firm the Government is dealing with. MPs heard yesterday that there is a local company registered under the same name as that of China Road and Bridge Corporation, which the Government announced it had given the contract to. Registrar of Companies Bernice Gachegu told the National Assembly’s Public Investment Committee (PIC) that she discovered in her records last week that two Kenyans had registered a company under the name China Road and Bridge Kenya Ltd in 2008. The Chinese-owned firm was Kenya Ltd in 2008. The Chinese-owned firm was registered as a foreign company in 1984 with 10 Chinese directors. Directors of the Kenya-owned company are Peter Maingi Gatere and Leonard Mwangi Ndung’u, but no further details about them were revealed yesterday, except that their office is registered in Westlands, Nairobi. Read more at: http://standardmedia.co....n-firms-in-rail-project
PORK has invested his legacy on this. If he isnt personally involved with the corrupt, then the corrupt want to smear his presidency with this scandal to show him whose the boss. Who'll blink first?Something's gotta to give or else he's screwed. If you stay ready, no need to get ready.
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