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Revealed: Sh150 million maize scandal
A bumper harvest of maize spread to dry at Emali, Makueni District. The allocation of the 80,000 bags to the so-called small-scale millers who supply about 60 per cent of the Kenyan market began on December 22.Photo/FILE
By DAVID OKWEMBAH and NOAH CHEPLEON
Posted Saturday, January 10 2009 at 21:42
Posted Saturday, January 10 2009 at 21:42
In Summary
- Some of the maize which was meant to cushion Kenyans against rising maize flour prices and a looming famine, may be on its way to Southern Sudan.
- KACC's investigation of an earlier maize-related scandal at NCPB in which crooked businessmen posing as millers were allocated hundreds of thousands of bags of maize to be concluded on Wednesday.
- NCPB Managing Director is reported to have distanced himself from the 80,000-bag allocation list even as some of his managers blamed a group of people at the Board for the situation.
He said is it was difficult to understand how the government could allow maize to keep ‘‘disappearing’’ in hundreds of thousands of bags at a time when millions are faced with starvation.
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