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MPs push body to cancel controversial cranes contract

KENYA: MPs piled pressure on the country’s procurement chief to cancel a multibillion contract for the supply of cranes to the Kenya Ports Authority.

In a stormy meeting at Nairobi’s Protection House yesterday, in which an MP was kicked out, some of them questioned why the Director General of the Public Procurement Oversight Authority (PPOA), Mr Maurice Juma, failed to cancel the contract despite glaring breach of the procurement laws.

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