Anti-graft agency to grill NSSF big shots

 

Chairperson of Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission (EACC) Mumo Matemu at the launch of National Survey on Corruption and Ethics report at KICC in Nairobi on November 12, 2013. PHOTO | FILE 

In Summary

• The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) board of trustees, led by acting Managing Trustee Mr Richard Lang’at and Chairman Adan Mohammed, has been accused by Mr Atwoli, also a board member, and Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) Executive Director Jacqueline Mugo of irregularly approving the amount

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The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has launched investigations into the controversial Sh5 billion NSSF housing development project.

The anti-corruption body said it had launched investigations into the Tassia II project which is now almost turning into a scandal.

“We have already received a letter from Mr Francis Atwoli… we will be fair, objective, and professional,” said EACC Chairman Mr Mumo Matemu.

He, however, declined to reveal how far investigations had gone.

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) board of trustees, led by acting Managing Trustee Mr Richard Lang’at and Chairman Adan Mohammed, has been accused by Mr Atwoli, also a board member, and Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) Executive Director Jacqueline Mugo of irregularly approving the amount.

In a related development, Labour Cabinet Secretary Kazungu Kambi has been summoned to appear before a Parliamentary committee on Wednesday to shed light on the project.

Labour and Social Welfare Committee Chairman David Were said Mr Lang’at, Mr Atwoli and Mrs Mugo will also appear before the team.

“Since we are still on recess, we decided to schedule the meeting for Wednesday to give National Assembly clerks time to prepare for the questioning,” Mr Were said.

Meanwhile, trade unionists in the Lake region have questioned the approval of Sh5 billion for the Tassia project through e-mail.

On Friday, the groups joined Mr Atwoli in demanding suspension of the project.

Mr Francis Wangara, Secretary General Kenya Union of Sugar Plantation and Allied Workers, said the deal raised integrity questions.

He said the NSSF board also has workers’ and employers’ representatives and in the absence of the two, the others cannot deliberate on any issue


“How was the matter passed without a quorum and how was the process open if the two representatives were not there?” he asked.