Activist Okiya Omtatah Okoiti who has filed a petition challenging the procurement and construction of the Nairobi – Naivasha phase of Standard Gauge Railway.
BY SAM ALFAN.
Activist Okiya Omtatah Okoiti has filed a petition seeking to stop the procurement and construction of the Nairobi – Naivasha phase of Standard Gauge Railway.
Mr Omtatah says that the award of the lucrative tender to China Road and Construction Corporation was irregular and made in violation of the procurement regulation which require public advertisement to invite other competitive entities.
He seeks an order against Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and the Kenya Railway Corporation from signing documents to award the construction work to the Chinese company.
” The application and petition has filed raise substantive issues of law relating to fight against corruption in public procurement in government offices the sovereignty of the people and supremacy of the constitution must be protected” he says.
The CS, Kenya Railaway Corporation and the National Treasury are said to have contracted the Chinese firm to carry out the construction of Nairobi- Naivasha SGR phase without following procurement procedures.
When the matter came up for hearing before te head of constitutional and Human Right division head Justice Isaac Lenaola, he directed the petitioner to serve his application upon the CS transport, Kenya Railway Corporation and CS national Treasury and same be heard on January 14, 2016.
The judge said that issues raised by the petitioner can only be properly addressed when all respondents in the case have responded to application.
