Auditor General faults KRA for giving tender to Swiss printer

A worker inspects beer bottles on a conveyor belt at the East African Breweries Ruaraka factory in Nairobi, Kenya February 17, 2010. [Photo: Courtesy]

Kenyans did not receive value for money on the Sh4.5 billion contract awarded by the taxman to print security stamps through single-sourcing.

Auditor General Edward Ouko has said the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) did not have any justification to hand the excise goods management system contract to a Swiss firm on a silver platter.