Kenya installs online tender system with in-built pricing to curb graft

 President Uhuru Kenyatta (Right) officially launches IFMIS electronic Procurement (E-Procurement)

NAIROBI: Public servants could be the biggest losers in newly-introduced procurement guidelines that will see Government buying goods and services at rates comparable to market prices. Weak procurement procedures have ensured corrupt government workers double up as major suppliers to the State and at exorbitant prices, either directly or through proxies.

Several Cabinet Secretaries have separately told The Standard on Saturday how big a problem collusion between workers in their ministries have been fleecing the State through fraudulent procurement – piling pressure on already unsustainable recurrent budgets.