Who will step in and put an end to the tangled web of phony financial transactions at Kenya Airports Authority (KAA)? This is the question many Kenyans are asking following multiple reports from the Auditor-General’s office of suspect multi-million shilling contracts with little benefit to the taxpaying public.
Take, for instance, the report that the agency’s tender committee increased the contract period for a civil engineering firm that was hired to demolish a burnt down section of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport – leading to a Sh340m claim.
Besides, Auditor General found that the committee was presented with two separate claims from the civil engineering firm, which it reviewed and approved making it difficult for the finance department to act.
This means no payment has been made, the amount keeps accruing interest meaning the agency is headed to incurring even higher costs for work that was completed a couple of years ago. That is not all, throughout the country, KAA has half-finished and stalled projects that have been undertaken at high costs but for which no one is being held accountable. This all arises from the fact that as it happens with all rich State agencies, there is a lot of interest in KAA’s Sh7 billion annual surpluses. Someone has got to stop it!!
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