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How Jubilee government plans to crash public tender cartels

Speaker Justine Muturi during budget reading at Parliament on Thursday. [PHOTO: TABITHA OTWORI/STANTDARD]

Jubilee administration has embarked on a policy and legislative drive to lock brokers, cartels and wheeler-dealers out of big-money government contracts.

President Uhuru Kenyatta, Speaker Justin Muturi and Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury Henry Rotich have rolled out the three-pronged attack to crush the well-connected powerful cartels that thrive on bribes and kickbacks to win government tenders.

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