Suppliers deny Western prisons food in Sh250m row

Inmates across prisons in Western region risk missing food as suppliers make good their threat not to deliver food supplies until they are paid. [Standard]

Prisons in Kakamega County could go without food indefinitely after suppliers halted deliveries due to a Sh250 million debt.

Through their lobby, the Kakamega County Suppliers, the traders said they would, starting yesterday, not make any deliveries to the prisons until the Government paid them.