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    "content": "First, there was a tender, indeed, that Kenya Medical Supplies Agency then floated which was won by Doll International. After Doll International won the tender and was, indeed, in the process of supplying the sutures to the Ministry and import them, the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission (KACC) went into top gear to find out whether there was impropriety in the tendering process and whether Doll International gained the tender unfairly. In the opinion of the KACC, to make a long story so short, it deemed that Doll International did win the tender unfairly and, therefore, instructed the Ministry not to receive the sutures until the case was properly prosecuted. The Attorney-General’s office, however, wrote to the Ministry with a copy to the KACC that since the Ministry had entered into a contract with Doll International and Doll International had gone ahead and procured the sutures, not receiving the sutures by the Ministry, would be tantamount to paying compensation to Doll International, should Doll International go to court and win the case. So, the Attorney-General chambers advised that the sutures should be received so that Doll International does not suffer loss or in the end if the sutures expired and Doll International suffered the loss, it is the Ministry or the Government that would bear the penalty. The KACC, however, was of the contrary opinion that so long as the case was in court, the Ministry could only take a step of receiving the sutures once the case was determined in court. We, therefore, as a Ministry are caught between the devil and a hard place. We need the sutures, but we cannot receive them."
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