KEBS vehicle inspection tender under fresh scrutiny

Before your imported vehicle ever arrives at the Port of Mombasa, before it is loaded onto a ship in Japan or any other export market, someone contracted by the Kenya Bureau of Standards has to decide whether it is fit for purpose. It is a little-known inspection process that determines whether your car enters the country at all. Tonight, that multi-billion-shilling KEBS inspection tender is back under scrutiny after Japanese businessmen, alongside Kenyan nationals, were charged with extensive procurement fraud during the bidding process. But as the former inspection companies head to court, questions have also been raised over the procurement history of the company currently entrusted with carrying out these inspections. Here now is our reporter Jasmine Wambui with the details of that controversy.