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A peculiar decision by the government to centralise procurement for all Information Communication Technology supplies for all ministries and parastatals, leaving it ICT ministry has not only led to slow service delivery, but also effectively killed hundreds of Small and Medium Enterprises across the country.
This financial year alone, the ICT ministry has been allocated Sh18 billion for development, a sharp increase from the modest sums it used to receive in the previous years. This budget is likely to rise as there will still be a supplementary budget in March.
This drastic move is similar to others undertaken by Jubilee government which have all ended in financial scandals.
BIGGEST SCANDALS
The first was at the National Youth Service (NYS), where the Youth ministry restricted the NYS to procure all goods and services from the ministry headquarters. The move gave birth to Jubilee government’s biggest scandals dubbed NYS 1 and 2 where it is believed, by conservative estimates, about Sh10 billion was swindled from government coffers.
A similar policy was applied in advertising that saw all government ministries and parastatals have their communication budgets managed by the Government Advertising Agency (GAA), a move that riddled implementation of the policy with corruption. |
