Tenders for newsprint at Government Printers is said to be regarded as a preserve for the few, especially multinational companies. That hegemony was recently shattered when a tender was awarded to a citizen-owned company Netsprings.Early this year Bond Free Investment trading as Paper4Africa wrote a letter to the tender committee at the Office of the President raising a concern on how the citizen-owned company were offered the tender when they didn’t have a letter of guarantee from the manufacturers as it was part of the requirements. The complaint by Paper4Africa which has been forwarded to Attorney General’s chambers is said to have exposed internal corruption at Government Printing. “If at all what Paper4Africa is saying is true that Netsprings have no letter of guarantee from the manufacturers, the question is how they knew about that?” said an officer at AG chambers who did not want to be named. According to the tender rules, the letter that Paper4Africa is talking about is not shared with the third party. Information gathered by this publication has revealed that Directorate of Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) is now investigating how Paper4Africa is bale to have confidential information about tenders which they are not supposed…
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