By Arret Jatta
Bubacarr M.A Kinteh, the founder and the proprietor of Nkolan Company has stated that he did not work for KMC directly but that money, totalling D1.6M was transferred into his account by KMC for him to facilitate the repairs of their bulldozers.
Mr. Kinteh’s company is involved in construction and he was summoned to the Local Government Commission of Inquiry to give account of the payments made to him by KMC.
“I did not work for them directly; it was Kanjura Kanyi (dumpsite supervisor) that came to me and told me that they were looking for mechanics who would service their bulldozers. I told him I know someone in Senegal,” Kintehexplained.
He went on to inform the commission that he has been to KMC with respect to this payment or contract but that he was in his opinion only there to ‘help’ them.
Questioned on what he meant by by “helping the KMC, ”
Kinteh stated that KMC was reluctant to pay cash to the mechanic and they needed him to help facilitate the payment.“I only helped them,” he said, also adding that at the time of receiving the payment he was already on a sick bed. He went on to emphasise that Kanjura Kanyi was the one going to KMC and coming to him regarding the transactions.
Further questioned as to his company offering vehicle maintenance services, he replied in the positive and was asked by Lead Counsel Gomez to provide evidence of past works of his company in which they provided mechanical services.
Kinteh at this juncture informed the commission that he has lost most of his documents but added that as a construction company involved with road building and others, he uses heavy machines in his work. He went on to provide his company’s GPPA registration certificate for 2017, maintaining that he could not trace any of his other documents as he has been sick since 2018.
On the payment, he said the KMC paid the money in his account and when the time was due for the Dakar trip, he was sick and underwent an operation.
He said he gave some cheques to Mustapha Kanyi also known as Kanjura Kanyi. He added that after this, he was taken to Senegal for treatment, where he spent 4 months.
“When I came back, I did not know anything about the machines,” he said.
The witness said Kanyi was the one who came to him and told him about it and took his invoice and receipts, admitting that he had never signed a contract for repairing heavy equipment.
“I came in just to assist,” he said.
The witness admitted that he has never written anything and payment was done to my account,” he said.
He concluded that he could not confirm whether Kanyi purchased the spare parts or not.