Re:China’s Built a Railroad to Nowhere in Kenya
by cosmodisk on Saturday July 20, 2019 @07:26PM
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This is called corruption. The first part,where you were asked to stay longer than needed is just a form of overbooking,where one declares the scale much greater than it actually is.I've seen this being done on a smaller scale,where instead of 5 people, company brings in 15 and then the extra 10 just wandering around nit doing much, however the end client is being billed as it was a job for 15 men.The other example was where a 1 truck of bricks turned out to be 15 trucks on paper...Again,the end client is charged. The part with drones is most likely where the locals with the right connections in the border services create some random company,then public tender is made in a way thst it just fits this new conpany. Once the contract is won, they'd buy drones from the major players anyway,just with a nice margin on top of it.
Prior to that, I also been to UAE, Kenya and Angola, with a UAV company, trying to sell drones to their respective border services.
To my surprise, I saw DJI sales reps also contending for same orders in both Kenya and UAE. Neither they, nor us got any contracts. In all cases, the tender victors were no name companies, registered few weeks before the start of tenders.