Trader was paid Sh333 million by NCPB

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri (second left) with members of the National Assembly's Agriculture Committee on Wednesday. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

A trader was paid Sh333 million for delivering 226,000 bags of maize in one of the transactions under scrutiny in the Sh11 billion payouts by the cereals board.

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri told a parliamentary committee that the payments to Celestine Chepchiri, who is recorded to have made more than 700 trips to deliver the consignments of 50kg bags to the National Cereals and Produce Board’s Eldoret depot, was among the questionable dealings.