Kenya Medical Supplies Authority CEO Jonah Mwangi Suspended over Sh7.7 Billion Covid-19 Funds Scandal
Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) CEO Jonah Mwangi has been suspended over the alleged Sh7.7 billion Covid-19 funds scandal.
Mwangi was suspended by Kemsa Board on Friday alongside Charles Juma (Head of Procurement) and Eliud Mureithi (Commercial Director) to give room for investigations into allegations of procurement irregularities at the State agency.
The three will remain suspended until the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) completes a probe into the matter.
Initial investigations revealed that top Kemsa officials flouted procurement procedures in the award of the multi-billion-shilling tender for supply of Covid-19 equipment to a company named Kilig Limited.
The company was awarded the contract under the cover of emergency needs and was given three months to supply as opposed to one month. Further, companies with less than six months in operation won tenders without providing credible financial records.
These companies supplied the Covid-19 equipment at inflated prices. For example, Kemsa is said to have procured more than 1.8 million KN95 masks at a cost of Sh700 per piece, which is nearly double the Sh450 market price on the higher side.
Disposable three-ply surgical masks were allegedly procured at Sh90 per piece against the market price of Sh50 while personal protective equipment (PPE) was acquired at Sh9,000 per set as opposed to Sh4,500 on the market.
Comments (8)
Why steal while people are suffering! Why? Is it second nature for Kenyans to steal?
Hardly shocking.
@Walid:
Sababu mojawapo kubwa ya uporaji wa mali ya umma (public wealth) ni kuwa wananchi wanapoona ya kwamba hakuna kitu kinachofanyika viongozi wanapoiba, basi wananchi nao wanaona kwa nini nao wasiibe kama viongozi?
Wakati Ndugu Ruto alipoiba shamba la Ndugu Muteshi, ni jambo gani ambalo lililofanyiwa mwizi wa shamba hilo? Mwizi huyo yungali makamu wa rais wa Jamhuri ya Kenya. Isitoshe, mwizi huyo anataka kuwa rais wa Kenya 2022!
Corruption is in our DNA.
HAKUNA PEYE WATAENDA.
THEY WILL BE VINDICATED AND CASE CLOSED.
@ceomwangi! Just read your last name backward and ask yourself why you do feel privileged to steal covid19 money! Have no shame ngimwa!?
Shame on this politicians when is enough enough what do you do with all that money while your fellow Kenyans are dying.
Someday the oppressed will rise up and storm the Bastille. This may be the only language these people understand.
Alietoroga Wakenya alikufa hakuna dawa. If you know what I mean.