Kenya Pipeline Denies Graft as Directors Are Suspended
- Newspaper says 95 billion shillings has gone missing
- Managing director says company hasn’t lost any money
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Kenya Pipeline Co. denied any corruption at the state-owned company as it suspended three officials to allow an investigation into alleged malfeasance to proceed.
President Uhuru Kenyatta is mounting his administration’s biggest campaign yet to tackle graft in Kenya, which ranks among the world’s most corrupt countries. On Monday, he ordered the suspension of procurement and accounting officers at all government-owned institutions as the authorities probe a scourge he’s previously described as a threat to national security.