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Keya Ports Authority Kilindini terminal in Mombasa County. [Joackim Bwana, Standard]
The High Court in Mombasa has allowed Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) to procure multi-million-dollar heavy port-operation machinery through restricted tendering, amid protests by Human rights groups calling for open tendering.
Justice Jairus Ngaah dismissed a petition filed by Senator Okiyo Omtatah, Benard Muchere and Naomi Misati challenging the restricted tendering process of 14 new reachstackers, 15 new forklifts and 48 terminal tractors at a cost of sh.1.444,358,056
Justice Ngaah said that Omtatah ought to have filed the petition at the tendering stage instead of waiting until the tenders had been awarded.
