Hundreds risk purge as body orders registration of procurement practitioners
Monday, June 22, 2020 0:01
By BONFACE OTIENO
Hundreds of procurement and supplies management workers risk losing their jobs after the professional body issued fresh directive for registration of all practitioners.
The Kenya Institute of Suppliers Management (KISM) said the country has only 2,500 qualified professionals but thousands of unregistered practitioners have found their way into private and public organisations.
KISM has since ordered the professionals, among them chain management officers, warehouse and store officers, logistics officers and consultants to either register or face prosecution.
The warning comes at a time Kenya’s procurement officers have in recent years been on the spot following revelations that a number of them have been colluding with bidders to steal millions of shillings from the State.
The move saw the State transfer at least 150 procurement and accounting officers to new work stations in a swoop the Treasury said was aimed at taming corruption in government departments and State–owned firms.
