Confidential correspondences lifts lid at the rot at KFS, and why disbanded board wanted top management sacked

Principal Secretaries for Shipping and Maritime and Transport Nancy Karigithu (left) and Esther Koimet (right) peruse a document during a sitting with members of the Senate Committee on Transport at the Kenya Maritime offices before proceeding to tour the Likoni Ferry crossing channel. [Gideon Maundu/Standard]

Confidential documents by the disbanded board of Kenya Ferry Services (KFS) have lifted the lid on the extent of rot at the State agency.

It has emerged that even before the September 29 Likoni Channel ferry tragedy which claimed the lives of a woman and her daughter, the board had called for a senior management shake-up. It recommended the sacking of Managing Director Bakari Gowa over alleged incompetence.