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We risk paying other dubious companies, Ababu warns

Kenya: Public Accounts Committee chairman Ababu Namwamba has cautioned that the payment of billions of shillings to phony Anglo Leasing contracts could open a floodgate of claims by other dubious companies.

Mr Namwamba said the government laid the ground for other corruption networks to demand that their irregular transactions be honoured.  “The moment you pay, it becomes an avalanche as every ghost company will start asking to be paid billions without having delivered any service to the taxpayer,” the MP said.

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