An internal audit has unearthed an alleged scandal between Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) employees and contractors.
They are accused of registering companies to award themselves contracts and sneak in unqualified firms into the company’s database.
According to an audit seen by Citizen TV, the power company enlisted 525 firms; out of the pre-qualified firms, 354 were shortlisted with fake documents.
Most of the disputed firms are linked to KPLC employees.
For instance, a clerk in Nairobi is claimed to have registered a company, enlisted it in the KPLC database and then sold it off to a contractor at Ksh.900,000.
The same clerk is apparently related to a director of a firm given a KPLC tender in Nairobi.
Further, four other members of staff are said to have direct links with…
