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).
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The year 2020 will go into the annals of history as one riddled with high-profile financial scandals amid efforts to tame the Covid-19 pandemic.
On top of the list of graft-hit parastatals is the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa), through which the taxpayer lost billions after the national drugs supplier inflated the prices of Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE).
The scandal left Kemsa holding Sh3 billion worth of dead stock. And while, ironically, there is still need for more PPE across the country, the Kemsa stock is so inflated no one is willing to buy it.
Senior officials at Kemsa reportedly increased the prices of PPE by a whopping Sh7.8 billion as the coronavirus raged.
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Reports have emerged on how a powerful businessman is using all means to avoid scrutiny following a special audit report detailing how mandarins at the premier medical supplies’ agency dished out tenders to Covid entrepreneurs in total disregard to procurement processes.
Mr Richard Ngatia the owner of Megascope Healthcare limited is reported to have received in excess of tenders worth billions of shillings in a Scam that how now been flagged by the Auditor General Nancy Gathungu in a special Audit report dated 29th September 2020.
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