Ati the company awarded Kshs 40 billion plus contract may not be producing/manufacturing what they offered to sell to KDF
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/03/01/defense-firm-given-418m-kenya-contract-may-misrepresenting-products/
And the original producer would sell the same product the winning company is selling at a lower price.
Nani hapo KDF anapata kickbacks?
There was a lot of hallabaloo raised about the deal by some US legislators.
Watu walipouliza maswali government spinners walisema deal iko sawa. Waulize
That’s the thing. The assumption by whoever stamps the deal is that everything brought to them is in tip top condition, no errs whatsoever
Whatever the mess is, its not Kenya’s problem. The arms sale has to be approved by the US congress (including Muuzaji). Kwa hivo hakuna ati ‘KDF kuna mtu anakula’, Its supposed to be ‘congress kuna mtu anakula’.
Then again, its Breibutt doti komu, the biggest propaganda website in Trumpstani
cc: @Jazzman
My fren, when buying arms feom the US, it has to pass through the Pentagon in a program called Foreign Military Sales where the potential customer tells the US what they want, then sit back. From there, the pentagon will source for tenderpreneurs, the tenderpreneurs will deal with the Pentagon until the goods are ready to be delivered. Nowhere will the tenderpreneur and the customer meet. The Pentagon being the middle man, will handle everything, subject to approval by the State Department and finally, Congress.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Military_Sales
http://www.dsca.mil/programs/foreign-military-sales-fms
Now, the other thing in play is the military industrial congressional triangle where arms manufacturers spread their plants across several congressional districts, so that they can have a lot of congressmen push for government contracts in favour of those companies, and in turn, the constituents of those congressional districts get jobs even the congressmen get jobs with those companies after they’re done with politics. If congressmen don’t play ball, they support their rivals in various ways including financially. The competitor to the company (L3 technologies) awarded the deal by Pentagon, IOMAX, is in the district that the congressman who complained is elected to represent. You see where I’m going?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGIFsRqQ1S4
Now, the original deal included training for pilots (atleast 50), ground crew, engineers and technicians; weapons (most important); spare parts and advanced technological equipment. Did those congressmen account for the above in their evaluation of the deal or did they simply just pick on the price of the aircraft ONLY and proceeded to raise hell that their constituent isn’t getting the deal?
http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/government-kenya-air-tractor-aircraft-weapons-and-related-support
And you who simply follow articles, did you know the original deal included the above and did you account for them if you knew?
Yes, money has disappeared from government coffers and they should go home but on this, no one is eating anything.
Just to be clear, this is for KDF, not this failure we call a government. Ama namna gani?
2354hrs yaaaaaawn
One major general ( tall chocolate fellow ) reciding at south c near ole sereni.
Army procurement officer.!