Table Mumias Sugar report, orders Speaker
What you need to know:
- Mr Muturi asked the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives to take its findings to the House, whether they are “skeletons or flesh”.
- Mumias Sugar and its former chief executive, Dr Evans Kidero, have been the subject of reports in the media over the past three weeks, with the Nairobi governor and the current board trading accusations over who is responsible for the problems facing the company.
- The Mumias inquiry is part of the committee’s investigations, after a petition by Western Development Initiative, asking for Parliament’s help to end the crisis in the sugar sector.
National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi has demanded that a parliamentary committee handling investigations into the troubled Mumias Sugar Company tables its report without further delay.
Mr Muturi asked the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives to take its findings to the House, whether they are “skeletons or flesh”.
“Bring a report. Let us see what the House has excavated,” he said.
The Mumias inquiry is part of the committee’s investigations, after a petition by Western Development Initiative, asking for Parliament’s help to end the crisis in the sugar sector.
The speculation Mr Muturi was referring to arose from the committee’s leaked draft reports, with some lawmakers alleging their colleagues had been compromised by officials implicated in the mismanagement of sugar factories.
Mumias Sugar and its former chief executive, Dr Evans Kidero, have been the subject of reports in the media over the past three weeks, with the Nairobi governor and the current board trading accusations over who is responsible for the problems facing the company.
At its Parliamentary Group meeting before the House resumed sittings on February 10, Jubilee MPs demanded that the committee table its report on investigations into the affairs of the company in 14 days.
