Kenyans online have gone berserk following a photo that has been doing rounds which appeared on dailies advertising a tender.
This tender advert by the ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government on one of the print dailies has left many in shock.
One of the tender description is for airlifting of Presidential speeches. To apply for that tender, a supplier would require a bid bond amount of Kshs 500,000.
A bid bond is a written undertaking issued by a Bank/Insurance firm on behalf of a customer (State House in this case). They are issued to support tenders for contracts made by suppliers. The tenderer is compensated amount specified if supplier is awarded but fails to take up the contract.
That means that if you as a supplier fail to deliver on airlifting those precious Presidential speeches, the government gets a cool half a million from your insurance company.
However this is not convincing, for a government which prides themselves as being digital how could they fail to adopt some super fast and less costly methods like using Emails? Or this could be one of the many oxygen supply schemes in the government.
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