Wacha nikule jasho...pesa za wizi sitaki kabisa..EVEN POSING AS DISABLED??AFADHALI NIWE MASKINI..
Uhuru sister’s company in same group as the disabled
Sunday October 30 2016
Sundales International Ltd Managing Director Kathleen Kihanya addresses the press at Jacaranda Hotel in Nairobi on October 29, 2016. She said her company is not involved in the health scam. PHOTO | ANTHONY OMUYA | NATION MEDIA GROUP
In Summary
- Sundales International Limited, whose directors include the President’s sister, Nyokabi Kenyatta Muthama and cousin, Kathleen Kihanya, is named at number 1790 on the Public Procurement Oversights Authority’s 2014 roll of “Disadvantaged Groups” that should receive preferential treatment when they bid for tenders.
- Sundales International , incorporated in September 2013, has accumulated an impressive portfolio of multi-million-shilling government tenders.
- Sundales was paid Sh41 million as part-payment for several tenders it won for supplies to the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority.
- On Saturday, Ms Kihanya strongly denied claims that the firm had won the tender due to influence-peddling.
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By WALTER MENYA
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A company associated with President Uhuru Kenyatta’s close relatives, which has been named in the Sh5.2 billion Afya House scandal, was listed in the Treasury’s roll of companies that should get preferential treatment for tenders reserved for the youth, women and the disabled.
Sundales International Limited, whose directors include the President’s sister Nyokabi Kenyatta Muthama, and cousin Kathleen Kihanya, is named at number 1,790 on the Public Procurement Oversight Authority’s (PPOA) 2014 roll of “Disadvantaged Groups” that should receive preferential treatment when they bid for tenders.
President Kenyatta directed in 2013 that 30 per cent of all government tenders should be allocated to the youth, women and disabled people.
But the inclusion of Sundales – which was incorporated in September 2013 and has accumulated an impressive portfolio of multimillion-shilling government tenders – will raise eyebrows.
That the firm is owned by the President’s sister and Ms Kihanya, who was a major figure in the corporate world as the head of sales and marketing at Mumias Sugar Company before quitting to run Mr Kenyatta’s presidential campaign in 2002, raises questions about the eligibility of the company for preferential treatment, which should be given to disadvantaged groups in bidding for tenders.
Sundales has attracted intense attention since an internal audit queried the expenditure of Sh5.2 billion in the ministry of Health, including hundreds of millions of shillings that were to be spent on the free maternity care programme.