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Auditor-General feels the heat over Kemsa scandal report error
Wednesday January 27 2021
By EDWIN MUTAI
Summary
The National Assembly’s Public Investments Committee (PIC) raised the red-flag after Nancy Gathungu’s office wrote to Parliament correcting errors in the amount of cash paid to Nanopay Ltd and Shop ‘N’ Buy Ltd.
PIC chairman Abdulswamad Nassir drew the attention of the committee to an addendum reducing payments to Nanopay Ltd from initial amount of 340,975,000 to Sh34.9 million on account of “tying error.”
The Auditor-General’s office is on the spot over errors in the special audit on the procurement of Sh7.8 billion Covid-19 related items by Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa).