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Chopper ‘tender error’ cost taxpayers Sh1b

PS Karanja Kibicho and IG Hillary Mutyambai. They defended adjusted prices of three police choppers. [Boniface Okendo,Standard]

The Interior ministry changed the cost of three police helicopters by close to Sh1 billion, MPs heard yesterday.

The National Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was told that the ministry tendered for the helicopters at Sh4 billion, but ended up paying additional Sh906,100,927 to acquire them.

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