As time unfolds, the cesspool that is corruption continues to cripple our country gets deeper and deeper
Even before the dust settles on the KSh 2 billion fuel spillage chaos that erupted at Kenya Pipeline Company in December 2018, a fresh and much bigger theft scandal has exploded at the same graft-ridden state corporation.
Some 51 million
Oil marketers, who previously locked horns with KPC over alleged spillage of 21 million
According to a report by Daily Nation, the marketers expected 61 million
βThe variance of our Jet stocks in the KPC system requires an explanation from KPC. We have already imported this stock and discharged it into the KPC system nad the same confirmed in your records,β the furious oil marketers said in the letter addressed to the acting MD, Hudson Andambi.
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The jet fuel is needed to keep the aircrafts flying, and this explains why Kenya Airports Authority (KAA), upon learning of the fuel crisis at KPC, also reportedly wrote a letter notifying pilots to about the fuel crisis.
The latest crisis comes a few moths after the now former KPC director, Joe Sang, dramatically reigned amid allegations that 21 million litres of fuel valued at more than KSh 2 billion could not be accounted for.
Sang, whose term was expected to expire in April 2019, tendered his resignation letter on the morning on December 4, 2018, as probe into the alleged massive losses at the state corporation kicked off.