Kemsa CEO Directly Links Health CS Kagwe And PS Mochache To Multibillion Shilling COVID-19 Scandal

As the noose on corruption continue to tighten in the country and following the directive by the President to look into the alleged Kemsa scandal, new revelations continue to unravel.

After failing to show up to the senate committee of health last week, the suspended  Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa) chief executive officer Jonah Manjari appeared before the committee on Friday and dropped a bombshell.

According to the CEO who appears to have decided not to go down alone, he named Health CS Mutahi Kagwe and PS Susan Mochache as having been directly involved in the multibillion-shilling Covid-19 scandal.

Manjari told the committee that the CS and the PS were both following up the procurement of Covid supplies and made calls and texts to him in the effect in what was asserting pressure on him.

The suspended CEO narrated to the senators how the text messages and calls would come – fast and furious – loaded with a lot of pressure directing the medical agency to act in a particular way.

“We received requests from CS Kagwe and PS Mochache mostly through phone calls and SMS to distribute commodities in hotspots. All these things came with pressure,” Mr Manjari told the committee at the Senate chambers.

He also admitted that most procurement of Covid-19-related materials such as PPEs done by the agency around March and April did not follow the correct procedure of tendering due the urgency.

PS Mochache has been accused of directing Kemsa on procurement and firms to award.