Kenya: EACC Stops Multimedia Project

23 August 2012
The Star (Nairobi)
By Dominic Wabala

The Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission has stopped a Sh63 million multimedia contact centre project at City Hall annex. EACC investigators at City Hall said the project is "overpriced and not worth it". City Hall and Sido General Contractors entered into an agreement on May 17, 2011 to establish multimedia contact centres to improve service delivery.

The EACC is demanding a refund of a Sh10m down payment. A forensic report conducted by Wachira Irungu & Associates in 2011 also questioned the release of the funds to the company before work had started. Sido Contractor's Robert Abuga put in a invoice of Sh10.5 million three days before taking over the site.

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