Ouko reveals 8 years of crooks at Kerio Valley Development Authority

President Uhuru has noted that scandals in the government are jeopardising the country’s progress with the alleged kickbacks scandal involving Arror and Kimwarer dams been the recent.

These are thieves who manage Kerio Valley Development Authority. First things first. Over 3/4 of the management is KALENJIN. They borrowed ksh 21billion & helped loot the borrowed money. Kalenjin Directors looting from a project that should have helped their own community. Uchawi pic.twitter.com/0Lr25YXneB— Lord Abraham Mutai (@ItsMutai) February 28, 2019

The Kerio Valley Development Authority officials and the Treasury are now under investigations but as a matter of fact, officials of the two institutions do not even know where in Elgeyo-Marakwet County the dams should be.

The embattled Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA) has been in the crosshairs of Auditor-General Edward Ouko regarding unexplained expenses or blatant abuse of power in the execution of key projects over the last eight years.

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With the focus now on the Arror and Kimwarer dams projects in Elgeyo-Marakwet that are under the agency, it has emerged that KVDA’s financial books have always been flagged for misuse and unexplained use of public money.

From a 2014/15 report by Mr Ouko, which is the latest as the audit office is yet to make public subsequent reports, KVDA, under Mr David Kimosop, the managing director, was put on the spot for acquiring a loan facility of Sh400 million from KCB without following the Public Procurement and Disposal Act.

The money was for a new wing of its two-tower building in Eldoret.

In a strongly worded audit, Mr Ouko did not mince his words, indicating that KVDA had not provided a level ground for other banks that were interested in the deal, questioning whether there were underhand manoeuvres in the acquisition of the loan.

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