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Principal Secretary, State department for crops development Richard Lesiyampe
The Ministry of Agriculture was at pains to explain how it procured Sh2.1 billion worth of subsidised fertiliser meant for smallholder farmers in 2014 as it has failed to produce documentation to support the procurement for the past four years.
Crop Productions Principal Secretary Richard Lesiyampe yesterday was taken to task by the National Assembly’s Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) to explain why they could not produce a single document to back the procurement of the 260,905 metric tonnes of fertiliser, four years since Auditor General Edward Ouko raised the matter.
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