OUKO: KAA was not involved in JKIA take over deal

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The controversial Jomo Kenyatta International Airport proposed take over by Kenya Airways(KQ) apparently did not involve the Kenya Airports Authority as revealed by the auditor General Edward Ouko.

In an audit report tabled in parliament yesterday, the office of the auditor general says that it was not furnished with important documents in the highly criticized takeover deal.

“There is no evidence that KAA ever prepared and submitted any proposal to the board. We have not been presented with a feasibility study which could have informed the joint cabinet memo meeting,” said Ouko.

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The Privately Initiated Investment Proposal (PIIP) was not supposed to be made public until the Public Investment Committee in parliament stumbled on the deal while going through financial accounts of KAA, subsequently ‘leaking’ it to the public.

The committee then made a request to Ouko to do an audit to determine the viability of the deal. Meanwhile, the committee ordered the halt of the deal until the audit was done.

The National Assembly’s Public Investments Committee ordered an immediate halt to the process even as it called for a forensic audit by the office of the Auditor-General on how the deal was reached.

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The MPs said the takeover plan in which KQ would tentatively run JKIA for 30 years is suspect and a case of top forces conniving to rip off the taxpayers.

The lawmakers added that Kenya risks losing billions of shillings in revenue should the deal be allowed to proceed.

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