Top KPA managers banished to Kisumu, retired in sweeping port purge

Transport PS Prof. Paul Maringa (left) leads his Cabinet CS James Macharia (right) as they arrived for the review of the Mombasa Port Community Charter in Mombasa on Thursday. [Gideon Maundu/Standard]

Only a day after President Uhuru Kenyatta read the riot act to the heads of State corporations, the axe has fallen on  Kenya Ports Authority bosses.

Fourteen top managers at the KPA headquarters have been retired, demoted, or transferred.