{"id":1991,"date":"2023-02-13T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2023-02-13T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T10:50:22","slug":"head-of-public-service-urges-ministries-parastatals-to-develop-procurement-plans-to-eliminate-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2023\/02\/13\/head-of-public-service-urges-ministries-parastatals-to-develop-procurement-plans-to-eliminate-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Public Service urges ministries, parastatals to develop procurement plans to eliminate corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-13-at-11.16.42-AM-1024x461.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-13-at-11.16.42-AM-1024x461.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-13-at-11.16.42-AM-300x135.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-13-at-11.16.42-AM-768x346.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-13-at-11.16.42-AM-1200x540.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-13-at-11.16.42-AM.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Felix Kosgei, the &nbsp;Head of Public Service and Chief of staff on Monday urged ministries and , parastatals to develop procurement plans in order to eliminate corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Kosgei, consolidated annual procurements plan will have to be approved by respective boards of directors in order to enhance transparency of procurement by government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese are areas that must be enforced by KRA. We will hold officials accountable for each and every mistake that is made intentionally with motives o to misdirect government funds to other uses not planned for,\u201d Kosgei said during a working tour of the &nbsp;Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) Offices in Nairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kosgei noted &nbsp;PPRA\u2019s overarching role in relation to public procurement, makes it a critical entity in supporting the government\u2019s good governance objectives through facilitating policy and administrative intervention oriented measures, to secure \u2018quick wins\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chief of staff that PPRA needs to implement <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>appropriate &nbsp;strategic preventive actions that will catalyze the anti-corruption efforts that are required to curb the vice in the prevalent procurement sector, with a cascaded effect across the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Musangi Chairman of &nbsp;PPRA said that government is prioritizing the transition from manual procurement systems to e-procurement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cE-procurement will also make auditing of procurement of public bodies much easier,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Kosgei, the &nbsp;Head of Public Service and Chief of staff on Monday urged ministries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}