protect the stored seeds from getting spoilt.We didn’t have time to follow the standard procedure of publishing a tender in the newspapers and identifying the lowest bidder. The marketing officer suggested that we just buy them from the same supplier we usually used. Much after the rain had come and gone, a question was asked as to why we had not published a tender; was there some sort of underhand agreement between the marketing officer and the supplier? Of course, we were able to justify our actions, and the matter was closed, but had a serious inquiry been launched, the matter would have
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