DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTION V. PRAXIDIS NAMONI SAISI, ETHICS & ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION & CHIEF MAGISTRATES ANTI-CORRUPTION COURT AT NAIROBI

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

Following an advertisement for tender No. REF. GDC/HSQ/086/2011-12 by Geothermal Development Company (ADC) for the provision of rig move services which was awarded to Bonafide Clearing and Forwarding Company Ltd for Kshs.42,746,000 per rig move; the 2nd respondent, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), carried out investigations concerning procurement anomalies in the tender process and found that the contract price for the tender was unjustifiably inflated above the normal market rates, in comparison to the same rig move services undertaken by other government institutions during the same period by the same service provider.

For those reasons, the EACC recommended that the Managing Director of GDC, Silas Masinde Simiyu, the General Manager, Michael Maingi Mbevi and members of the Tender Committee namely: Praxidis Namoni Saisi (1st respondent), Dr. Peter Omenda, Nicholas Weke, Caleb Indiatsi, Abraham 1Saat, Godwin Mwawongo and Bruno Linyuri; be charged …