The reign of corruption cartels in Kenya is in jeopardy as plenty of exposes are trickling down to the public. So far suspects in NCPB, KPC and NHIF scandals have found themselves in hot soup in the arms of the law with some even on the run to escape arrest.
Currently the membership of a parliamentary committee is up in arms after it emerged that their chairman was allocated Sh4.2 billion for the construction of roads in his constituency to buy his allegiance.
The bone of contention is that Members of Parliament had made a request for Sh30 million each, which translates to Sh8.7 billion for road projects in their constituencies but it was turned down because of lack of funds.
They were surprised to find out later that the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Transport David Pkosing (Pokot South) had gone behind their backs and secured the multi-billion-shilling deal for the construction of a 65km road in his constituency.
Members of the committee now claim Pkosing was compromised by the Ministry of Transport to go slow on matters touching on the docket.Do you agree with the members on this allegations?
There has been a hue and cry by members over the manner committee chairpersons have been compromised by the Executive in form of favours and goodies so as not to push them in relation to audit queries and misuse of funds.
The members of the committee were of the view they would not be in a position to fulfill their oversight role as the chair was already compromised by the Executive.
They argue that it was illogical to allocate Sh4.2 billion to a single constituency for a 65km road, while some constituencies did not have even a single kilometre of bitumen-class road.
The project was advertised in yesterday’s edition of My Gov inviting the wrath of the committee members prompting a meeting to remove him from office.
In the advert, the Kenya Rural Roads Authority, (KeRRA) has issued a tender notice for the upgrading to bitumen standard and performance-based routine maintenance of roads.
The road was identified as Kapsait-Kapsangar -Tapash-Sondany-Kaptambuk, and access to Kaptabuk High Altitude Training Centre measuring 65 km.
A member of the committee Peris Tobiko revealed that it came to the knowledge of members that the chairman had already been compromised when they saw the advert.
This is as MCAs are under scrutiny over ghost workers and dubious ways of acquiring and misusing county public funds.Most of the counties are in trouble with auditor general Edward Ouko over audit reports.