But the audit found that advance payment for Arror dam was overpaid by $25.2 million and that of Kimwarer by $16.4 million. Another notable flouting of the law to have the contract agreement signed involved getting a guarantee for the advance payments. “The review has established that the intention of abandoning the concession agreement contract and inducing an illegal commercial contract was to enable defraud money from the Kenyan people. In a commercial contract, the contractor’s intention is to earn maximum benefit in all ways and at times unethically. This could have been the motivation of abandoning the concession agreement contract for commercial contract agreement,” the audit states.

Source: Daily Nation April 05, 2020 06:56 UTC