Kenya: MPs in uproar over different contracts issued to millers

Nairobi — A mega scandal is brewing in the Ministry of Agriculture over the maize subsidy program after it emerged that millers were awarded different contracts to supply subsidized flour. Revelations that emerged before the National Assembly Committee on Agriculture showed that the contractual obligations in the contract given to the Cereal Millers Association and Grain Owners Millers Association were different. Millers under the Grain Owners Millers Association who are mainly small-scale millers were required to distribute subsidized maize flour at Sh 100 directly to the consumers in their contractual obligation. However, the millers contracted under the Cereal Millers Association were not obliged to ensure subsidized flour supplies get to the consumers at a subsidized price. MPs have raised eyebrows that the omission in the contract was to ensure money was swindled from Kenyans under the program. "We have two sets of contracts that were submitted by the millers and those ...