She said the PS, who appeared before her committee to brief members of the committee on the matter, assured them that the report has been sent to National Assembly Speaker Job Ndugai’s office.
“After getting the report, Speaker Ndugai will subsequently send it to PAC for further scrutiny,” she said, noting that the committee did not discuss the PS’s submissions yesterday.
The Lugumi contract involved a deal between a private company, Lugumi Enterprises, and the Police Force for the installation of 108 forensic machines across the country.
The Lugumi contract involved a deal between a private company, Lugumi Enterprises, and the Police Force for the installation of 108 forensic machines across the country.
A report by the Controller and Auditor General says the work was not done, despite payment of billions of shillings. According to details now in the public domain, a US registered company, Biometrica LLC, and a local firm called Infosys - which is formerly linked to a cabinet minister - are all intertwined in the contract.
Lugumi won the 37bn/- tender and reportedly contracted the US company to do the job. The foreign company then gave Infosys the mandate to install the 108 machines for a small fraction of the cost, less than 200m/-.
But Infosys officials have denied knowledge of Lugumi at the time they got the job. They insisted they did their work. The CAG report says only eight machines had been installed, and just two were working as at 2014.
Early this year, a parliamentary sub-committee headed by Vwawa MP Japhet Hasunga (CCM) was formed to investigate the contract.
Early this year, a parliamentary sub-committee headed by Vwawa MP Japhet Hasunga (CCM) was formed to investigate the contract.
