Treasury: Uhuru administration paid Sh4bn to 'ghost' maize millers
Trucks loaded with maize queue to deliver the produce to the National Cereals and Produce Board, Eldoret depot in Uasin Gishu County on February 2, 2023.
The National Treasury has asked Parliament to help with investigations into the Sh4 billion paid to millers from last year’s maize subsidy programme, in a move that is likely to delay payment to the processors.
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung’u said that even though the Sh4 billion is said to have been paid to millers, Treasury cannot trace the actual firms that received the money even as there is a claim of another Sh4 billion that processors are owed by the government.
