Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed has fired the contractor from Wote Stadium in Makueni County due to underperformance.
The Presidential Delivery Unit (PDU) made a statement on Tuesday, February 2 indicating the CS's move.
Reportedly, Mohammed visited the construction site which was being run by Mike Muendo's Traphes and Nitram Enterprise Limited and she was unimpressed by the progress.
Labour CS Simon Chelugui and Sports Kenya Chairman Fred Muteti are among the colleagues that accompanied her.
The CS revealed that the Ministry has selected National Youth Service (NYS) to take over the project.
The fired contractor has therefore lost a Ksh350 million deal with the state. It is said that he had missed several deadlines including that of December 2020.
In September 2020, he appealed to have the deadline extended by two months but the Ministry of Sports officials rejected his appeal.
“The issue of timeline extension can’t apply here because you know the pressure we’ve been given and how many times we’ve been here and you have been assuring us that you’ll mobilise your team in order to adhere to the set timelines, but that has not been the case," Muteti stated at the time.
He added, “We’ve even been directed to terminate your contract and re-advertise it but we’ve been patient and so the facility must be handed over to us (Sports Kenya) by the end of the year.”
After the site had stalled in 2017, the contractor signed a return to work agreement with the ministry in June 2020.
Claiming that there was a variation of Ksh12 million due to the restructuring of the site's landscape, the contractor sought for an extension.
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