MPs summon CS Eugene Wamalwa over Sh14 billion Eurobond proceeds in irrigation docket

Water and Irrigation PS Dr Richard Lesiampe (L) and National Irrigation Board General Manager Eng Daniel Barasa consult when they appeared before the National Assembly Delegated Committee on Agriculture at Continental House Nairobi on Friday. PHOTO: BONIFACE OKENDO

NAIROBI: Members of Parliament Friday summoned the Cabinet Secretary for Water and Irrigation Eugene Wamalwa to give an account on Jubilee government's one million acre irrigation project.

At the committee meeting which Wamalwa had failed to appear, Acting Principal Secretary Richard Lesiyampe could not comprehensively account for the Sh14 billion Eurobond proceeds that was purportedly used to finance the Galana-Kulalu irrigation project which is part of the one million acreage Jubilee plan.