An internal audit at the Kenya Power and Lighting Company has revealed massive irregularities in its procurement department, even as the company battles to clean up its image amid public outrage over its services.
Management is preparing to kick out a number of employees who colluded with firms to pre-qualify them.
The audit initiated by the management reveals how staff collude with unregistered companies, or front proxies, to win tenders at Kenya’s main electricity supplier.
The report on a tender for the supply of Labour and Transport for the 2016-17 financial year exposes an intricate web of collusion between employees and supplier companies — some of which are owned or associated with the staff — in dizzying malfeasance.
Hundreds of companies were pre-qualified despite having…
