A secondary school Board of Management Committee has refused to sign a Sh1 million tender award documents for the construction of toilets claiming it was given to an outsider. The funds allocated by the National Government were meant to construct modern toilets at Mkondoni secondary school.
Charo Thoya, the BOM chairman, said 13 people applied for the toilets tender but were surprised when the school principal asked them to go and sign the tender award documents in Malindi instead of doing so at the school.
Speaking in Mkondoni, Thoya said they suspect the tender was given to a non-local who influenced the school principal that’s why the BOM members were being told to travel to Malindi to sign the documents.
“We sat at a committee and resolved to award the tender to a contractor from Jilore ward so as to empower them, we don’t want the contract to be given to an outsider,’’ he said.
Thoya said they got information that the 'outsider' who had been awarded the tender had quoted Sh1.3 million and wondered where the rest of the money would be paid from.
As per the tender condition, the funds which would be released for the project is only Sh910,000 as the remaining 90,000 will be left in the bank.
Thoya said the Malindi Sub-county Director of Education Veronica Kalungu directed the Committee to sit and agree who would be given the tender but the principal was going to another person from Malindi.
Contacted for comment, the school principal Mishi Abdulrahman Juma dismissed claims that the committee was being forced to sign the tender award documents saying all the procurement procedures had been followed.
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