Lawmakers have given the Trade ministry six months to conduct a comprehensive assessment on the qualification and suitability of trade attachés abroad in what could expose incompetent individuals who have failed to grow or find new export markets for Kenya’s goods and services.
The National Assembly Committee on Trade, Industrialisation and Cooperatives reckons that Kenya’s trade missions abroad have struggled to find new markets for Kenyan goods despite gobbling up a “huge share” of the ministry’s annual budget in allowances payable to attachés.
