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Headline : MPs want PSs, parastatal chiefs liable for tender woes

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Accounting officers in government ministries, parastatals, and county finance officers will take personal responsibility for the non-performance of contractors, as MPs have proposed as part of a new strategy to tame growing numbers of stalled public projects.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly says a public entityโ€™s accounting officer should be responsible if a contractor they approved to undertake a project fails to deliver. The recommendation comes when projects valued at billions of shillings have stalled.

PSs and chief executives are the accounting officers in ministries and parastatals, respectively.

โ€œAccounting Officers are further warned of personal responsibility should contractors fail to perform, considering the evaluation of the technical and financial capacity of bidders is mandated under the law,โ€ PAC says in a report on examination of national government audits for 2020/21.

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