MPs want ‘bungled’ Galana irrigation project suspended

One of the centre pivot irrigation machines installed on the second plantation farm in a ten thousand hectares model Farm of Galana Kulalu Food Security Project which was officially launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta on July 16, 2015. [PHOTO: File/Standard].

A parliamentary committee now wants the Jubilee administration's million-acre Galana-Kulalu irrigation scheme suspended because of failed pilot projects. The MPs said the project had already gobbled up at least Sh7 billion without tangible results.

Addressing a news conference at Nairobi's Continental House, the National Assembly's Committee on Agriculture said the officials and players involved in the project must also be investigated for misusing taxpayers' money.