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The procurement mess at Kenya Medical Supplies Authority got thicker on Tuesday as the top officials sacked and suspended over the scandal spoke for the first time, with a blame game taking centre stage.
In a game of musical chairs, each of the officials who appeared before a Senate committee investigating the Sh3.7 billion mosquito nets scam distanced themselves from the mess.
Neither sacked Public Health PS Josephine Mburu and board chairman Daniel Rono, nor the suspended Kemsa CEO Terry Ramadhani even came close to owning up to the irregularities that led to the cancellation of tender by the Global Fund.
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