Ruto fires half of KPA officials in a new leadership changes
Ruto through Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen fires half of KPA officials in a new leadership change
Ruto through Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen fires half of KPA officials in a new leadership change.
Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport Kipchumba Murkomen, on Friday, January 20, made changes to the leadership of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) Board.
Murkomen reconstituted the KPA board of directors by appointing five new members in a Gazette Notice on January 20, 2023.
For a three-year term commencing January 23, 2023, Murkomen appointed Musa Osman, Emmanuel Kibet, Caroline Njoki Maina, Consolata Lusweti, and Lucas Maitha.
Conrad Thorpe, Farida Abdalla Sud, Lydia Yator, Stephen Gichuhi Gichohi, and Nilfat Kassim Ali had their appointments terminated at the same time by CS Murkomen.
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Kenya Ports Authority was in the spotlight for leadership and integrity issues during former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government.
On August 27, 2020, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Noordin Haji, issued an arrest warrant for Daniel Manduku, the former managing director of the Kenya Ports Authority, who was charged with embezzling Ksh244 million.
Manduku was accused of, among other things, approving the budget for the 2018–19 fiscal year and engaging in illicit procurement for the production of concrete barriers at the Inland Container Depot, Kilindini Port, and Makongeni Goodsshed yard in Mombasa County without a procurement plan.
“There was no requisition made for concrete barriers by the user department within the KPA as required under the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2015 and the regulations made thereunder,” Haji claimed.
The Office of the Auditor General previously questioned the Kenya Ports Authority’s (KPA) spending as it emerged that the parastatal owed its creditors more than Ksh11.6 billion that year.
A report by the Auditor General also questioned KPA’s increased operational expenses.
The increase in operating revenue indicated a leakage, which was projected to affect the long-term business sustainability at the port.
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