Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has warned that all government agencies, including county governments, will strictly continue using the Electronic Government Procurement (eGP) system, dismissing reports that Parliament had revoked it.
Speaking on Thursday during the 13th Development Partnership Forum on enhancing effective development cooperation at Deputy President Kithure Kindiki's residence at Karen in Nairobi, Mbadi firmly dismissed claims that the system had been scrapped.
Mbadi was responding to claims and concerns raised by the Council of Governors on how the devolved units had faced challenges with the new system that was launched by the Treasury to address the integrity issues surrounding the manual procurement system. "One contentious debate that is being pushed outside there is that Parliament revoked the e-procurement system.
I want to be very categorical that we are not going to allow the use of the manual system, and this should sound as a warning to the county governments," Mbadi stated.
