Emerging details have lifted the lid on how state officials work in cohorts with contractors to fleece billions from state coffers using the mega projects hence the increasing sagas.
It has emerged that the plot includes the state officials taking charge of proposals by their preferred contractors and then use their connections into push for their approval.
Consequently, they get millions in kickbacks as payment from the contractors, after which the firms proceed to recover their money and their dirty profit by doing everything by themselves.
The companies, according to the Nation, somehow manage to do the engineering, procurement, design and also double up as the general contractor for maximum profits.
They then demand for the advance payment from the state or mobilise financing from the government, then do some little work and then stop operations on the sites.
And due to the illegal channels taken from the point of tender allocation, the projects are normally end up in legal battles, further draining more money in the corrupt schemes.
This is as interested persons and state bodies seek to know the channels used to award the tenders, since on most occasions, they are not the most qualified firms to handle the jobs.
Its also a win for the contractors and their cohorts in the government when the contracts are terminated due to idling on the ground, as they are not asked to refund the payment intialy made to them by the state.
Consequently, they get to keep the money for no work done.
This comes shortly after Water Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui expressed fears that the nation might lose Sh11 billion in the stalled Itare Dam project in Nakuru.
The project has stopped after the contractor, CMC Di Ravenna, was declared bankrupt.
The CS earlier in the week said that the nation will lose the money should the state proceed to terminate its contract with the Italian firm.
The firm is the same one behind the Arror and Kimwarer Dams scandal.