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Issue Date: Aug 31, 2011
Publishing>> Education • South Sudan/The UK
The UK-based Macmillan Publishers has been ordered to pay £11.3 million (US $18 million) for “unlawful conduct” related to its education division in East and West Africa.
A London court passed the order after UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) began an inquiry last year following a report from the World Bank.
The report stated that an agent for Macmillan had made “bribery payments” to secure a World Bank-funded tender to print and supply education materials in South Sudan. The company, though, did not win the contract.
Macmillan said it “deeply regretted” what had happened. “Fortunately, it has been established that the issue was confined to a limited part of our education business in East and West Africa,” chief executive Annette Thomas told BBC. Macmillan also said it had cooperated with the World Bank and SFO by instructing lawyers to conduct an independent investigation into all publicly tendered contracts it won in Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia during 2002-2009.
The World Bank set up a trust fund in 2006 to help rebuild South Sudan’s economy, health and education systems devastated by decades of civil war.
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It looks that not even the education remained untouched by the flame of corruption an bribery. Poor countries deserve more than that because poor countries also have the potential to produce intelligence, so why not encourage that instead. One of my masters in nursing programs colleagues is from Sudan, I am well aware of the situation there...
denny
I am convinced their books are not that bad, but trying to get the contract by bribing is wrong. I am working on my organizational leadership degree and I would feel really angry to learn that the textbooks I use to study were printed in these circumstances, when it comes to education the one which offer the best information should always win.
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