NAIROBI: The Consumer Federation of Kenya (Cofek) wants the Government to disclose details of interference that led to the cancellation of the hiring of a new managing director by the Kenya Airport Authority (KAA) board.
“We will be writing to the Cabinet Secretary invoking provisions of Article 35 to provide the details of the alleged interference,” Cofek Secretary General Stephen Mutoro said in a statement Thursday. “Based on the response from the CS, we may commence a process to seek for a fresh injunction against the current board of KAA from overseeing the process, which they have bungled and confessed to have done so by themselves,” he added.
The statement further claims that the KAA board lacks the moral authority and integrity to conduct a fair and credible process, since it can no longer meet high thresholds of articles 27(4) and 232 of the Constitution. Cofek also says a number of directors need to be investigated over possible bribery and other interference that marred the process.
Cofek now wants Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary James Macharia to constitute a fresh KAA board with competent men and women who have no conflict of interest. Mr Macharia said on January 11, that he had taken the decision to cancel the KAA board’s hiring mandate after realising that the current process of filling the position that fell vacant after former Managing Director Lucy Mbugua was shown the door, had been interfered with.
“It has now come to my attention that the process has been unduly interfered with thus resulting in doubts on the credibility of the anticipated outcome,” said Macharia. The position has been vacant since the parastatal parted ways with Ms Mbugua alongside General Manager Finance John Thumbi and the acting airport Engineer Christopher Warutere over the airport bus scam.
The three lost their jobs after it was revealed that they helped KAA to flout procurement rules by awarding a tender to Relief and Mission Logistics Ltd to provide the service of the five-ramp passenger buses that would have cost KAA close to Sh11 million per month.
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