A company associated with Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission chairman Philip Kinisu (pictured) has been implicated in a Sh150 million suspect government tender.
Investigations have established Esaki Ltd was hurriedly awarded a tender to supply malaria control insecticides, despite being issued with a pesticide licence a day before opening of the tender and after the tendering had been closed.
Documents seen by the Star show Esaki, associated with Kinisu, his wife Mary Wambui and their daughter, was paid Sh150,123,120 to supply the insecticides.
They were to be used for indoor residual spraying in Awendo and Rongo subcounties in Migori.
According to the documents, the Malaria Control Unit awarded Esaki tender MOH/DCDP/MCU/007/GF-RT/2014-2015 for supply and delivery of pirimiphos methyl 300 capsules.
Esaki applied for and was awarded pest control licence No 32951 on March 23, 2015, a day before the opening of the tender on March 24, 2015.
On May 4, 2015, Esaki wrote to the Health PS acknowledging receipt of the award letter and confirming acceptance of the offer, awaiting signing of the contract.
An Esaki invoice sent to the Malaria Control Unit on August 10, 2015, indicates the firm delivered 22,200 bottles of pirimiphos methyl 300 capsules saturated (833ml) at Sh5,790 per unit. The total cost was Sh128.1 million.
On the same day, another invoice No 003, dated August 2015, from Esaki indicates it delivered 3,728 bottles for Sh5,790. The total was Sh21.5 million.
Esaki has been linked to the Sh791 million NYS cash scandal. Kinisu has denied any wrong-doing.
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