[kictanet] RESPONSES FROM ENGINEER KIDENDA ON THE STATE OF KENYAN ROADS

[Collins Areba]

it does say a lot that communication with a public office, in charge of
such a huge amount of investor money takes that form. Its first and
foremost making Grace et al some sort of email to barua ya kawaida
converter, is more environmentally unfriendly (printing paper and all and
is overally inefficient. Im therefore not surprised at most of the
responses. Imagine if this was the fire brigade , and there was a fire. Now
put that particular ministry in the context of V2030.


On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Steve Muchai <smuchai at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:49 AM, James Mbugua <jgmbugua at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Listers
> >
> > I have removed them from the attachment and copied into the body of
> > the mail for easier reading.
>
> Thanks. I was pleasantly surprised to see a response, but was
> disappointed on reading further - these are standard boilerplate
> responses. As an example:
>
> > 5. Why does the government award contracts to companies that do not do
> their job
> > professionally?
> >
> > Government contracts are awarded in accordance with the provisions of the
> > Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005 and Regulations, 2006. This
> includes
> > competitive bidding process through tendering and award to the lowest
> > evaluated bid.
>
> This does not answer the question. Are there any punitive measures
> taken against contractors who perform sub-standard work? An example is
> the Magumu-Njabini road, on which repair works were completed in 2003
> but by 2005, some sections were already degraded. Today the road is
> terrible. A report by the Controller and Auditor-General specifically
> mentions the works on this road as unsatisfactory
> (http://bit.ly/LGMKK5 - Section 4 onwards).
>
> Regards,
> Steve.
>
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