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Details of the crooked manner in which six companies in collusion with suppliers and procurement officers went to load millions of shillings in procuring fictitious goods and services have emerged.
Documents in our possession show situations where the same item was procured over 20 times within two weeks under different local purchase orders (LPOs). This happened even as it emerged that although Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru wrote to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over this scandal, another officer had already raised the alarm but his letter was somewhat ignored.
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