Justice delayed for farmers in maize scandal; Uhuru explains

From the look of things the farmers will have to wait for even a longer period of time before they could be served with justice. Maize farmers to be specific have had a lot of problems this year. Most of them are even considering engaging in other ventures but not maize farming.

But what does not impress most Kenyans is that despite the President issuing public notice and warnings to CS Kiunjuri and even went ahead to form a committee to look into the matter nothing fruitful has been presented to the table.

Will they even present anything to solve current woes affecting farmers in the country? I doubt.

An internal audit conducted at NCPB, which was later tabled in Parliament, indicated that silo managers ignored basic regulations on maize purchase.

The report showed how traders, assisted by NCPB officers at the depots, infiltrated the process, and had documents altered in their favour (traders).

The audit also revealed weaknesses in the forms used by the board once maize was delivered, saying they lacked any security features and could easily be replicated, as may have happened, leading to multiple payments.

Kiunjuri revealed the cartel claimed to have remitted two million 50kg bags of the overall 6.52 million bags delivered to NCPB.

“It is interesting to note that they were paid between 63 per cent to 90 per cent of their delivered quantities by December 2017, amounting to Sh2.053 billion, and are claiming an additional Sh1.47 billion,” he said.

152 people, mainly NCPB officials and unscrupulous traders, were under investigation and faced possible prosecution.

Do you think they will be prosecuted or the cases will just disappear?

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