Khato cut cost of multimillion pula project
Friday, August 23, 2019
It was also tabled before Cabinet way before the tender award was announced, the documents revealed.
The documents also established that when the award of the tender was announced, Khato’s winning bid was put at P781 million or USD 65 million, while the Ministry’s own project estimate later surfaced to be P900 million. Critics questioned the price hike and blamed the contractor for the ballooning of the project budget.
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