This archive report was first published on 8 July 2020.
Published on July 8, 2020, the National Assembly Clerk Michael Sialai has confirmed that former Trade minister Mukhisa Kituyi is not under any summons from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over a disputed contract award dating back to 2004.
The contract, worth Sh12 million initially, had expanded to Sh340 million by March this year in accrued interest, with the government having paid Sh285 million.
According to a letter signed by Sialai, there is no submission by any officer from any State department that would cause the PAC to summon Kituyi as the then Minister for Trade and Industry in 2004.
Kituyi is currently the country's top-ranking official in the UN system and has recently been positively mentioned in relation to the 2022 presidential succession.
However, the Ministry of Trade, through the Solicitor General, maintains that there was no contract for phase III, and said the matter is under consideration with the Pending Bills Closing Committee.
During the March sittings, the committee demanded that Tourism PS Safina Kwekwe furnish the team with the original contract, court orders, advisories from the Attorney General, and other correspondences the ministry might have had on the contract.
