By Mulengera Reporters
For varied-ranging reasons, a number of Ugandan companies and firms have been blacklisted by PPDA which regulates all public procurements on behalf of the Government of Uganda. A circular/statement signed by PPDA Executive Director Benson Turamye clarifies that the blacklisting or suspension in this case simply means these companies won’t be allowed to do any business with (supplying stuff to MDAs) government for the next three years because they engaged in criminal and fraudulent manipulations aimed at dubiously winning government tenders and contracts.
Until the three year period elapses, the suspended firms aren’t supposed to win any contract from GoU and receive any bid solicitation document or enter any communication from any government entity except in relation to completion of contracts won/awarded earlier.
Turamye’s message is communicated to all accounting officers managing the more than 372 government Procuring & Disposal Entities (PDEs). The PPDA Regulations, under which the suspension is effected, stipulate that on expiry of the suspension period, a bidder applies to be removed from the listed of suspended/blacklisted firms to be able to resume doing business with government entities.
Turamye’s circular explains that the suspension affects the respective directors and senior employees in the same companies as well. The ED says the companies have habitually been in the habit of submitting “forged documents under several tenders.” He adds: “The Authority investigated the matters and found that the firms breached the Code of Ethics of Providers. In accordance with Section 8(1)(f) and 94 of the PPDA Act 2003, the Board of Directors considered the recommendations and resolved to suspend the providers contained in the table below.”
FULL LIST:
Turamye then proceeds to unleash the full list of the companies and their equally suspended/banned/blacklisted Directors who won’t be able to bid for any government contract in the next three years. Yet that isn’t all. Any company or bidder outside the suspended list that includes any of the impugned directors on the list of its employees when biding for government contractors is liable for sanction and that alone can cost them a win in any bidding process.
THE COMPANIES
For “submitting forged Transaction Tax Clearance Certificate,” Suayo Investments Ltd is suspended for three years. Its directors are Tom Ayo, Tonny Abwa & Evelyn Akot. The trio can’t do business with government for three years.
Top Harvest Agro Consult & Construction Co Ltd was suspended for submitting “forged bank statements from Centenary Bank and a forged bid security from Equity Bank.” The Directors subsequently affected are Dennis Kizito Alenga and Tom Richard Oune.
Goyen Investments Company Ltd was suspended for submitting a forged Transaction Tax Clearance Certificate and an equally forged bank statement from Fabian Kasi’s Centenary Bank. For starters, the TTC Certificate is supposed to be issued by the Commissioner General of URA evidencing that the company bidding for the government contract has fully been complying with its tax obligations. Non-compliance is ground for disqualification from the bidding process. So to qualify, companies which haven’t been complying often forge Tax Compliance Certificates. Sometimes they succeed in getting the job when actually they don’t pay the required taxes. That is why the PPDA Act severely punishes such conduct to protect government from losing revenue and even money in case the job is awarded to a firm that lacks even capacity to meet its own tax obligations.
Goyen Investments Company Directors include Godfrey Ayena, Nixon Otira, Ivan Ayena and Eunice Abote. These individuals, as per the PPDA circular, are supposed to be shunned and denied contracts by all accounting officers and heads of PDEs until the suspension period lapses and their eligibility is reinstated. The company submitted forged TTC Certificate and bank statements from Centenary Bank.
Jenn Technical Services Ltd is also suspended for submitting a forged TTC certificate supposed to be issued by URA and their suspension is for three years.
Xynox Investments Ltd was suspended for forging the Tax Registration Certificate and the offending Directors are Hellen Apili, Ambrose Ogwal and Sandra Akot.
Otiken Investments Ltd, whose Directors are Nixon Otira and James Okene, was also suspending for forging and tendering a fake Transaction Tax Clearance Certificate.
Prime Development Ltd was also suspended for conniving to accept an overpayment of Shs24.6m for equipment they never supplied on top of submitting a forged bank guarantee.
Mugwelo Company Ltd, whose Directors are Moses Ogwel, Teddy Ogwel and Sam Engola, was suspended for submitting a forged bank guarantee from DFCU Bank.
Jacqsen Uganda Ltd, whose Directors are Jacob Okera, Patrick Achola, Geoffrey Akera, Joanathan Enanga and Gerrad Odot, was suspended for submitting a forged Performance Bank Guarantee from Equity Bank, Bank Statements from Bank of Africa and the URA Tax Transaction Clearance Certificate.
Katcon Services Ltd was suspended for submitting forged completion certificates.
Baltech Technical Services Ltd was suspended for submitting forged completion certificates for the 21km Kabasanda-Kakindu Road in Mpigi district.
Beldom ADB Ltd, whose Directors are unknown, was suspended for forging bid security and TTC Certificate.
Bugoye Contractors Company Ltd, whose Directors are Wilson Bwambale, James Muhindo and Jackson Muthimba, was suspended for breaching contract obligations.
Ram Projects Ltd, whose Directors are Jonnaza Srinivasa Reddy & Jonnaza Sailaja, was blacklisted for submitting false information regarding its specific experience in doing similar work.
BVS Construction Ltd, whose Directors are Balaka Jayaram & Vijaya Yerragovula, was blacklisted on recommendation of the World Bank after considering its dealings shady and unacceptable. Its Directors are permanently banned by the WB over inappropriate conduct.
Amman Industrial Tools, whose Director is Mohinder Singh Chal, was indefinitely suspended for causing GoU a financial loss of more than $1.7m.
Nishita Maini, Rajaserakan Arjun and Andrew Kyangwa’s Equipment Ltd was indefinitely suspended for improper conduct.
Apple Construction Company Ltd, whose Directors are Gibson Babangira and Paul Abileebe, was blacklisted for submitting a forged income tax clearance certificate, VAT certificate and 2 forged completion certificates.
Mid North Contractors Ltd, whose Directors are Isaac Apenyo & Grace Akol, was suspended for submitting forged completion certificates.
RNR Construction Company Ltd, whose Directors are Richard Waiswa and Rogers Kyosi, was suspended for submitting forged income tax certificates, fake bid security and fake completion certificates.
Zan Construction Uganda Ltd, whose Directors are Dennis Muheirwe and Eva Kyoheire, was suspended for submitting forged TTC Certificate.
Patra Construction Uganda Ltd, whose Directors are unknown, was suspended over TTC Clearance forgeries.
Mbujaah General Contractors (U) Ltd, whose Directors are Wilson George Mbulamukungu, Andrew Nkosa Duudu and Gladys Nkosa Nankya, was blacklisted for submitting a forged Register of Provider Certificate.
Waala Engineers Ltd, whose Directors are even now known, was suspended for submitting forged Register of Provider Certificate.
Patsimo Logistics Ltd, whose Directors are Simon Nabyama and Patrick Mukasa, was blacklisted for submitting forged Register of Provider Certificate. Amakeron Enterprises and Dam Aloc Investments Ltd were blacklisted and suspended over similar breaches on top of forging TTC & Income Tax Clearance Certificates.
Acamen Investments Ltd, whose Directors are Douglas Okello, Christine Okello, Joseph Omongo, Geoffrey Otoa, Jimmy Ogwal and Isaac Ocwet, was blacklisted for breaching code of ethical conduct of providers. They also submitted forged bank statements misrepresenting them to be from Barclays Bank.
Majengo Construction Co Ltd, whose Directors are John Peter Odyek and Elizabeth Mary Odyek, was suspended for submitting a forged bank statement from Stanbic bank. They remain suspended up to 2021.
Daat Company Ltd, whose Directors are Dennis Aciko and Agnes Topacho, was suspended for breaching contractual obligations regarding the construction of Pakadha HC III staff houses. Monic & Sons Ltd was suspended for forging bank statements from Centenary Bank.
Terezina Investments Ltd, whose Directors are Peter Otim, Jennifer Ayoo, Douglas Okello, Flavia Akullo & Jimmy Omara, was suspended for submitting forged bank guarantees from Stanbic Bank.
Multi Best Consult Ltd, whose Directors are Jimmy Heinrich and Racheal Pamela Nalule, was suspended for three years for forging the TTC Certificate purporting it to be from URA whereas not. The same breach caused Central H Investment to be suspended. Robson Construction Ltd (whose Directors are Robert Odong & Po Bovisloro) was suspended over similar breaches.
Anden Company Ltd, whose Directors are Denis Opio Otema, Jacklyn Angech Opio and Janice Akullo, was suspended for forging the TTC Certificate. Green House Construction Ltd (Directed by Godwin Obol & Immaculate Akidi) was suspended for abandoning the Aloi Construction site which amounted to failing to perform contractual obligations.
Invisible Investments Ltd, whose Directors are David Sebulima, David Mwasa, Yunia Namirimu Musoke & Martha Bulage, was suspended for forging the TTC Certificate.
Ox Foundation Ltd (owned by Anthony Wanruko & Rebecca Wanruko) was suspended up to May 2021 for breaching the ethical code governing contractors.
Jamara Company Ltd, whose Director is Agatha Judith Apio, was suspended for forging the RoP certificate.
Restore Green Cover Uganda Ltd, owned by David Ogwang Rosemary Birungi, Isaac Akullo, Allan Okabo & Daniel Obedi, was suspended for forging tax transaction clearance certificates.
Batania Investments Ltd, whose Directors are Andrew Odur, Dorothy Acen and Samuel Egwete, was suspended for undisclosed unethical conduct.
Ilodo Holdings Ltd, whose Directors are Walter Apita, Felix Opio and Desmond Ogola, was suspended for forging tax certificates. Ambrose Construction Company Ltd (owned by Ambrose Ocen, Bosco Ogwang & Lily Auma) was blacklisted for the same. Others suspended for the same breaches are Millenium Agencies Ltd, Amach Producers & Marketing Cooperative Society.
Elgon Interiors & Construction Co Ltd, whose Directors are George Wamunga & Musa Wanaba, was suspended for failing to perform contract obligations. The same goes for Isolux Ingeniera SA.
Power & Water Products Ltd was suspended up to 2021 for forging trading license and TTC Certificate.
Emmy Ways Engineering Construction Ltd was suspended up to May 2021 because its Directors forged prior experience by claiming to have constructed Lorretoh Senior School in Mukono District which they actually didn’t.
Universal for General Construction & Trading Company Ltd, whose Directors are Goitom Araya & Berhane Tesfaghi Tsega Zeah, was suspended for fraudulently falsifying bidding information including overstating the contractual amounts for the work they had previously done in South Sudan for International Organization for Migration (IOM). They remain suspended up to May 2020.
David Ogwang & Rosemary Birungi’s Top Brands Ltd was suspended for lying in their bidding documents that they had previously done work for UNHCR sub office in Mbarara at the Kyaka field unit. This information turned out false hence the PPDA sanctioning. Other affected Directors are Isaac Okullo, Allan Okabo and Daniel Obedi.
Odamah Brothers Ltd was suspended for forging certificates of completion on previously awarded contracts and forging bank statements.
Engineering Trade Links Ltd, whose Directors are Brian Osuna & Immaculate Aloiciate, was suspended for forging completion certificates. Magna Construction Ltd was sanctioned for forging bid security.
Apollo Guma & Allen Nakitende’s Black & Veach Civil Engineering Ltd, was sanctioned for forging bid security.
Submitting forged TTC certificates, bid security or power of attorney caused the following companies to be sanctioned and banned from contracting to do any government work: Yalama Holdings Ltd, Anyila Enterprises, Lero Industries, Eastern Auto Parts Ltd, Asureet Contractors & General Supplies, Acra Holdings Ltd, Geobot Water Engineering Services Ltd, AKA Construction Ltd, Joel Odongo Amen’s Kioga General Enterprises Ltd, Gudul Investments Ltd, Francis Ojoro/Sandra Okot’s Mamelih Investments Ltd, Moi Olwa’s Acako-Acaka Technical Company Ltd, Agaya Investments Ltd and Arua-Kubala Park Operators & Market Vendors Cooperative Society Ltd.
Angelique International Ltd can’t do any government contract because it was indefinitely blacklisted and suspended by World Bank for engagement in “corrupt and fraudulent practices.”
Racheal Akwir & Peter Obaa’s Empire Tools Ltd was suspended for forging bid security and failing to “substantially perform contracts” previously awarded to her.
Paul Mukiibi Katamba & Susan Mutebi’s Pasue Enterprises was suspended for forging bid security and the ban goes on up to 4th February 2021. Failure to substantially perform past contracts is the reason OHKA Enterprises was sanctioned.
Yet for forging certificates of incorporation & awards (just imagine) Fountain Technologies Ltd remains suspended up to 4th February 2021. Ritah Komujuni & Joshua Ainebyona’s Jomap Consult Ltd is banned up to May 2022 for forging TTC Certificate.
And finally the following companies are banned and suspended each for three years for reasons ranging from WB blacklisting, forged bid securities and tax certificates: The affected companies include Speed Construction Ltd, Baron Services Inc, Data Team Uganda Ltd, Pioneer Construction Ltd and Charles Kyenkya. The last two entities/companies continue being investigated further by the WB regarding their past inappropriate practices. (For comments, call, text or whatsapp us on 0703164755 or email us at mulengera2040@gmail.com).
