Behind closed doors, the fight has degenerated into a naked tribal contest pitting Mount Kenya powerbrokers against what insiders describe as the Rift Valley mafia, with Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe caught uncomfortably in the middle.
Documents tabled by the prosecution in the court indicate that the firm, 51 Capital owned by controversial businessman with a criminal past Joe Kariuki used fake documents in almost all its transactions that saw it being paid Sh 206.2 million in a deal that has left farmers with heavy losses.
Powerful politicians reached out to a journalist to have an investigative story on the fake fertiliser scandal dropped.
The Government has launched investigations into the fake fertilizer scandal that has rocked the country, warning that those found culpable will face the full wrath of the law. Through the Ministry of Agriculture, the State was however quick to note the subsidized fertilizer programme that had benefited hundreds of farmers had not been affected by […]
The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) has accused a Kenyan-based regional fertilizer merchant of fraud after it emerged the firm supplied substandard fertilizer to the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB). Documents tabled before the National Assembly Agriculture Committee by KEBS showed how SBL-Innovate Manufacturer Limited supplied substandard fertilizer dubbed ‘BL-GPC’ for over a year […]
