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Covid essentials rot at Kemsa as threats revealed

Suspended Kemsa procurement manager Charles Juma when he appeared before the parliamentary Public Investments Committee in Nairobi, yesterday. [Elvis Ogina,Standard]

It has emerged that there were threats to make top Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa) officials “disappear” if they dithered in awarding multi-billion shilling Covid-19 tenders.

This comes as the agency warned that the value of stocks being investigated is dropping.

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