Greedy officials killed Sh3b gas project for poor Kenyans

Questions abound on how two senior Jubilee politicians influenced the picking of a company that was unable to pay a debt of Sh135 million for a tender to supply gas cylinders worth Sh300 million

The decision by two senior state officials to cut a deal with a company teetering on the brink of bankruptcy led to the uneventful collapse of a project that would have seen millions of homes supplied with cheap cooking gas.

The Sunday Standard has been reliably informed that the decision to hand the Sh3 billion tender to Allied East Africa Ltd, a firm already under administration, was orchestrated by a senior member of the Executive and a vocal MP who together created a company that became part of four firms that were to supply National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK) with 500,000 gas cylinders.