It appears that taxpayers will foot yet another cost of transporting to their final destinations the Sh800 million container clinics that have been lying idle in Mombasa for over three years now.
The announcement by the Ministry of Health adds salt to the injury that is the fact that the cost of the containers was massively inflated, as per the Auditor- General Edward Ouko’s report.
Despite calls for the prosecution of responsible procuring officers and firms, nothing much has come from subsequent investigations.
It is absurd that the ministry today wants to bestow the responsibility of installing the clinics on “interested” county governments and MPs who were never party to the contract. Basically the ministry wants them to pick up the slack after going against the contractual terms to pay the contractor before the job was done.
We believe that the proper course of action is to have the contractor fulfil the terms of the agreement and install the clinics in strategic locations in highly populated areas in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. Meanwhile as the year starts we would like to challenge the Director of Public Prosecutions to commence trials of the Sh800 million container clinics scam suspects already identified in the Auditor-General’s report. It is the best way to show that there are no sacred cows in his renewed fight against corruption.
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