IT IS ALLEGED that two former senior
officials are secretly advocating for a multibillion-dollar tender to be
awarded to a specific foreign company. They are allegedly leveraging their
influence through a senior official at a critical state agency, which is
preparing for a national exercise in two years. The group is so determined that
they have supposedly prearranged
how to split the financial gains once the deal is secured. This column is
apprised that the senior official purportedly
plans to manipulate the procurement process to ensure the favoured company wins
the contract, sidelining fair competition.
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