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A billion-shilling Valentine’s gift that came with dose of amnesia

Shop N Buy Director James Cheluley shortly after a sitting with Senate Committee on Health. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Seeing himself on the evening news on Wednesday, James Cheluley must have wondered how he got on TV. Cheluley would rival a goldfish for the shortest memory span. The guy could remember nothing about the billion-shilling deal to supply the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) with overpriced personal protective equipment.

Watching him try to remember how he won a Sh1 billion tender within a day, I was convinced that memory loss was a disease of the rich.

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