8 Top Govt Officials Arrested, 20 Others Put Under Surveillance in Trending Scandal.
8 Top Govt Officials Arrested, 20 Others Put Under Surveillance in Trending Scandal: Eight officials from the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) were on Sunday interdicted and nabbed as crackdown on individuals believed to be behind fake fertiliser distribution escalates.
It is believed that the persons are part of a bigger group that issued KEBS stamps to two companies responsible for distributing the fake fertiliser.
Detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are also unraveling the possibility that two companies that have been suspended acted without knowledge of KEBS.
The fake fertilizer saga has seen top government officials, coming out to defend themselves. Earlier Agriculture CS Mithika Linturi denied the presence of fake fertilizer but a day later, he came forward saying this are the works of the opposition.
Notably, The government spokesperson, Isaac Mwaura also issued a press briefing highlighting that the supplied farm input was not a fertilizer but a soil conditioner.
On his part, DP Gachagua underscored that Kenyans should not be worried because the amount of fake fertilizer supplied does not threaten food security in Kenya.
He stated,” The quantity of fake fertilizer involved is very low, out of 40 million bags of fertilizer distributed under the program, approximately 50,000 bags have been identified as counterfeit.”
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