As if determined to undermine state security, it has been revealed that Misheal Kay Construction & Supplies Ltd. deliberately abrogated its duty as a supplier of rice and flour to the Sierra Leone Correctional Service (SLCS), when it failed to perform according to the contract awarded to it in a letter dated 23rd November, 2021.
Very reliable sources intimated this press that based on a letter written by Ibrahim Misheal Kallon, CEO of Misheal Kay Construction & Supplies, dated 25th November, 2020, he did state that: “Misheal Kay Construction & Supplies Ltd. hereby undertakes to pre-finance the supply and deliver the needed supplies promptly to the Sierra Leone Correctional Service for a period of up to six months in the event of delay in payment by the Ministry of Finance.”
The CEO of Misheal Kay Construction & Supplies Ltd. in this letter went on to boast that, “as the current supplier of rice for Inmates and Officers to the Sierra Leone Correctional Service nationwide, we were able to supply and delivered up to 12,000 bags of 50Kg rice during the COVID-19 lockdown period for emergencies even though we were owed the sum of Le4,000,000,000 (four billion Leones) and above for previous supplies.”
Against this background, it is evident that Misheal Kay Construction & Supplies Ltd. though it supplied rice to the SLCS during the COVID-19 lockdown period, the supplier did not see it as prudent and necessary to continue supplying rice to the SLCS at a time when the SLCS “had exhausted the buffer that is normally kept for eventualities such as this,” according to a letter from the SLCS to Misheal Kay Construction & Supplies dated 23rd November, 2021; when the SLCS had reason to terminate the contract with Misheal Kay Construction & Supplies Ltd. when the latter failed to supply rice to the SLCS in November 2021.
Additionally, the SLCS letter dated 23rd November, 2021 written to Misheal Kay Construction & Supplies Ltd., also did state that, this is “Concomitant with a similar letter you (Misheal Kay Construction & Supplies Ltd.) are in receipt of for the non-supply or rice to officers of the Sierra Leone Correctional Service dated 17th November, 2021 for six months.” The letter reminded Misheal Kay Construction & Supplies Ltd. that: “you received payment of Le656,980,000 (six hundred, fifty six million, nine hundred and eighty thousand Leones) in respect of officers’ rice which you never delivered.”
According to political pundits and political analysts, the action of Misheal Kay Construction & Supplies Ltd. is suspicious and must be investigated because it is clear that even though they had clearly and without coercion undertaken to commit themselves to supplying the SLCS even at the risk of delay in payment by the Ministry of Finance, Misheal Kay Construction & Supplies Ltd. went ahead to not supply the SLCS; something which political pundits consider as undermining the efforts of the government to maintain security and decorum among prisoners at correctional centers across the country.
Investigations continue.
