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The printing of currency notes by a British company may cost the taxpayer half-a-billion shillings more than other firms that presented bids for the tender, according to an activist.
According to Okiya Omtatah, American Crane & Company offered the cheapest bid to print the currency at Sh10.9 billion while French firm Oberthur Fiduciaire would have printed the currency for Sh11.2 billion.
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