UNRA’s Executive Director Allen Kagina has said that the authority is proposing to increase the tenders of local contractors from 7% to 30% in order to reduce the amount of money paid to international contractors.
“There are particular works that we reserve local contractors and others for international companies but local companies are free to compete,” said Kagina.
Out of the 3.8 trillion shillings’ budget that UNRA has planned for the financial year 2016/2017, 93% of this is going to foreign international companies-in their currencies
Kagina say there are measures in place to ensure that there is value for tax-payers money in road construction despite the origin of the firms hired to carry out road constuction work.
