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A suspect of maize scandal who had supplied 212, 000 bags to National Cereals and Produce Board(NCPB), threatened to ingest poison after she reportedly suffered a mental breakdown.
Caroline Chepchumba, daughter to Victoria Rotich, a 62-year-old widow, is among suspects wanted by police for their role, if any, in the National Cereals and Produce Board scandal, in which influential traders allegedly received more than Kshs5 Billion at the expense of genuine farmers.
During an interview with Standard, Rotich lamented that her daughter wanted to ease the pain and humiliation she was going through after her name was put on the public limelight by Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri.
“She wanted to take poison on what she termed as frustrations related to the maize issue. My daughter is currently hospitalized because she was branded as a cartel yet the only thing she did was to supply maize to NCPB,” she stated.
“What wrong did my family do to the extent that we are being followed up and down? We did not kill anyone, our actions were only to supply maize to the depots, and we did not import the grains from Mexico,” she was quoted the publication.
This comes after her family was named by the Agriculture CS when he appeared before the National Assembly Agriculture Committee to respond to farmers’ concerns of non-payment for maize supplied.