Gullet denies links with Unimix firm
Red Cross secretary general Abbas Gullet has denied claims that he is a director of one of the companies that supplied contaminated relief food to school children.
Mr Gullet said claims made in Parliament on Thursday by Ikolomani MP Boni Khalwale were “not true”.
“I am not a director of the company,” said Mr Gullet. “The entire process of procuring the Unimix and its distribution to the field was fully audited by a team led by Deloitte and Touche,” he added.
Dr Khalwale had claimed that he was a director of Sai Millers, which together with Proctor and Allan East Africa Limited, supplied high protein food, Unimix, contaminated with aflatoxin.
On Wednesday, Yatta MP Charles Kilonzo also alleged that a Mr Charles Nyachae and Mr Eddy Njoroge were directors of Proctor and Allan East Africa Limited.
The allegations were, however, denied by the breakfast cereals manufacturer’s Managing Director Ms Judy Macharia. She said Mr Nyachae had resigned from the position on April 29.
Left the warehouses
Even though she admitted that Mr Njoroge was still a director of the firm, he does not actively take part in the running of the company.
At a news conference in Nairobi on Friday, Ms Macharia said that their product was found to be contaminated after the food had left the warehouses.
This, she says, was a month after Kenya Red Cross had collected the consignment from their factory.
The company, she said, has already ordered a forensic audit to establish at what point their product may have been contaminated.
She said all the raw materials that are used to make the product were tested prior to manufacture.
