Kwao huyu asili yake Mkinga wa Iringa Tanzania, ni mtanzania kindakindaki na mmoja wa wafanyabiashara wa kiTanzania waliofanikiwa kufanya biashara kubwa kubwa ndani na kimataifa tena kuaminiwa na serikali kadhaa nje ya Tanzania

2 Jul 2017 — ... the 1990s like business tycoon Harbinder Singh Sethi. Born and raised in Iringa, a small town in Tanzania's ...
Few people received top dollar construction contracts from the Kenyan government in the 1990s like business tycoon Harbinder Singh Sethi.
Born and raised in Iringa, a small town in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands, Sethi arrived in Nairobi in the 1980s.
At that time, the idea of tenderprenuership was still new in Kenya. But for a man who had founded his first company at 19, he knew at an early age that he could make a fortune from lucrative multi-billion shilling construction contracts from government entities.
Sethi quickly understood the Harambee spirit building up in Kenya and would from time to time show up at public functions to give ‘generous donations’. His donations would grab media headlines and endear him to government officials.
But it was not until after
Ruaha Concrete Co Ltd, a firm he founded together with his siblings, was caught in scandals that his business activities in Kenya started receiving attention.
A 1997 report by the Auditor General found that
Ruaha irregularly received a contract from Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) to build a 9km access road. Despite this, the construction was still rocked by serious delays, large cost overruns and poor workmanship.
The project cost shot up two and a half times from Sh197 million in February 1995 to over Sh510 million by June 1998, when the road was finally completed. The auditor recommended that
Ruaha Concrete be blacklisted and investigated.
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