The National Cereals and Produce Board has been hit with yet another scandal after an internal operational audit revealed that it was holding maize worth billions of shillings that is unfit for human consumption.
Following the disclosure, agriculture experts and farmers have demanded a quality assessment be conducted on 984,102 bags of maize estimated at Sh3.1 billion, even as the NCPB management dismissed claims that the produce in Kisumu, Moi’s Bridge and Bungoma silos was contaminated with aflatoxin.
Private millers in North Rift and Western Kenya region have joined in the fray, arguing that most maize delivered to the NCPB stores was of low quality due to the high Rotten Discoloured Damaged (RDD) ratio and they were reluctant to buy it for…
