Why Angered Mututho Wants Irrigation Board Disbandment

Former Agricultural Parliamentary Committee chairman John Mututho now wants the National Irrigation Board (NIB) disbanded.

Muthutho has blamed the Board for the current crisis of food shortage in parts of the country.

Mututho said despite the board’s huge funds allocation it had failed to meet its expectations with the results being Kenyans dying of hunger in a situation that could be contained.

He said the board embarked on construction of several dams that were to provide irrigation but none had been completed yet the money had been consumed.

The vocal former Naivasha MP termed Chemusus dam, Perkera, Bura and Galana-Kulalu irrigation schemes as avenues for corruption where the board failed to meet its target.

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Addressing the press in Naivasha, Mututho said the projects were heavily funded and were to ensure food security by providing irrigated agriculture but NIB did shoddy work.

He said that Kenyans had lost billions of shillings in the projects leaving counties in dire need of food that would have been efficient had the board performed its mandate.

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“It time we ask serious questions about NIB because this is an institution that was being auctioned in 2001 but when we were in parliament we lobbied and had Ksh 23B transferred to it then it failed to deliver”.

He said recently the board could not explain exactly what happened in the Galana-Kulalu project in Tana River County adding that it had turned to be just another ghost project.

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