DCEC probes Basic Education ministry over contractor

Education executives: Muzila and Theophilus Mmoko at PAC meeting PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
Education executives: Muzila and Theophilus Mmoko at PAC meeting PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has leant that the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) is probing the Basic Education Ministry over a contractor who keeps winning tenders despite poor workmanship.

PAC learnt from permanent secretary at the ministry Grace Muzila that the contractor (name known to this publication) has abandoned a site in which they were to build teachers’ houses at one of the junior secondary schools under the ministry.

It was revealed that the company abandoned the project at 20 percent and had been paid for 40 percent of the project. It also emerged that the said contractor was given a waiver not to pay mobilisations fees, something, which was against the contract.

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