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The Kemsa mess: Staff earned millions at home as others did their jobs

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KEMSA CEO Terry Ramadhan addresses press conference at the Embakasi facility during a media tour on Tuesday, April, 4, 2023. [Samson Wire. Standard]

For 19 months now, scandal-ridden Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) has paid hundreds of millions to about 350 employees who were locked out of their offices.

Insider information obtained by The Standard and qualified by a recent letter to suspended CEO Terry Ramadhani say the authority is sagging under the weight of bloated staff, made worse by the November 2021 purge.

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