Agency faulted over transformers deal

Auditor General Edward Ouko when he appeared before the Senate County Public and Investment Committee at County Hall, Nairobi. [Boniface Okendo/Standard]

The Auditor General has faulted the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) for directly procuring 200 transformers, subjecting taxpayers to possible losses.

In his report for the financial year ending June 30, 2018, Edward Ouko noted that procurement of the transformers was supposed to be done through a competitive process. "The authority procured 200 transformers from a Tanzanian company through direct method of procurement as opposed to the required method of open tender," said Ouko.