MPs want culprits in NCPB scam unmasked

Farmers demonstrate aboard tractors on the Eldoret-Turbo road over the delay by the Government, through the National Cereals and Produce Board, to purchase their maize. [File, Standard]

Anger greeted revelations that unscrupulous maize traders were paid Sh1.9 billion on imported maize.

The revelations came even as the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) delayed payment for thousands of genuine farmers.