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Whether the county procured the jerricans at the said price or not, that is\na non-issue. Truth be told, Wangamati handlers failed him a big time in the\nmanner in which they handled the scandal. The King has already been exposed and\nis \u2018naked\u2019 and now for his 2022 political survival, depends on how he will\nhandle the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now let us take stock of Governor\nWangamati last state of the county address at the Bungoma County Assembly. Wangamati\ndid not mince his words by faulting the former procurement officers of working\nto sabotage key county projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wangamati cracked the whip and his\nwish of overhauling the entire procurement office was granted. A new director\nof procurement was installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alex Odanga the new director of\nprocurement first assignment into office was the procurement of the scandalous jerricans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a procurement procedure, Mr.\nOdanga who is directly answerable to the acting Chief Officer of Finance,\nJonathan Namulala must have overseen the procurement of the jerricans and even\nthere are claims that the officers single sourced (direct sourcing), Simpsur Ltd\nas the suppliers of the jerricans that Wangamati said was a donation from the\nbusiness community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Odanga must have verified that the\ncompany was prequalified and best suited to do supplies in the water tanks\ncategory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Assuming this category was nonexistent,\nthen the supply chain manager needed to explicitly state that the purchase of jerricans\nwas to be done by either Women, Youth or Persons Living with Disability (PWDs) because\nof not being a heavy intensive capital investment business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This means that a quotation was to\nbe sent to a number of companies and an evaluation committee formed so as to\nsatisfy that the lowest bidder gets the Local Purchase Order (LPO) of doing the\ntender. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Alternatively, if no company was\nsuitable to supply, the director of procurement ought to have bought directly\nfrom the manufacturer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Head of Supply Chain Management\nneeds to tell the public whether they paid SIMPSUR LTD a whooping Sh10, 000 per\njerrican, if that is not the case, then how much did they procure the jerricans\nat?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is SIMPSUR LTD the supplier or\nManufacturer? How many companies applied for the tender? Who sat on the\nevaluation committee and how many were they? Did the Governor remove the former\nprocurement leadership for refusal to play to their corruption\/ impunity tune?\nWHO IS FOOLING WHO?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bungoma By County Splash Editorial The controversy surrounding the procurement of 600 20-litre jerricans in Bungoma County at Sh10, 000 if it is anything to go by, then it may determine the making or the fall of Governor Wycliffe Wangamati. This is so because the wheelbarrow scandal in 2015 that was purchased at a cost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/horizonnews.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/walela.jpg\")
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