KAA has leased five buses for Sh11m per month and Uhuru is not happy
President Uhuru Kenyatta has lambasted the management of Kenya Airports Authority for leasing five buses that transport passengers within the airport at an outrageous cost of Sh11 million per month.
A furious President Kenyatta called for the prosecution of KAA employees who misuse public resources and directed its chairman David Kimaiyo to ensure the people responsible for theft of public resources at the parastatal are brought to book.
“I find it impossible to believe and to understand that you can say that you have buses you pay Ksh11 million a month. Why don’t you come and I give you NYS buses at KSh 100, 000,” said the president.
“We cannot sustain this. You must use resources properly and those who did this must be taken to court and they must return the public money.”
PSs RISK LOSING JOBS
Mr Kenyatta warned that Principal Secretaries face the risk of losing their jobs if they fail to ensure that their ministries fully adopt e-procurement by the end of next week.
The head of state said any PS who fails to comply will have his or her status as the chief accounting officer of the ministry taken away immediately.
He said he was no going back on the Executive Order he issued that requires all government ministries and agencies to use the e-procurement system to minimise avenues for corruption. He said there was some compliance but added that it was not satisfactory.
President Kenyatta also said senior officers should know that they cannot fool anyone by making available some tenders on the e-procurement system, while concealing others.
“You cannot fool us by showing a tender for KSH 100 million when your budgets runs into billions,” he said.
President Kenyatta spoke Friday when he opened a new terminal at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with a capacity to handle 2.5 million passengers annually.
JKIA EXPANSION
The President spoke after touring the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) Terminal 2, which has already started operating as the airport undergoes massive expansion.
“It is a moment of pride for all of us as we celebrate our resilience,” said the President.
The new terminal, that brings JKIA annual capacity to 7.5 million passengers, will cater for arrival and departure. It is designed to handle 1,600 departing or arriving passengers during peak hours.
The terminal has a centralised security screening system with separate departure and arrival processes.
Seven airlines have already started using the terminal, which also offers international to international transfers.
KAA will soon embark on building Terminal 3 which will have a capacity to handle 20 million passengers annually.
Acting Transport Secretary James Macharia said projections show that JKIA will be handling 25 million passengers in 2015 and this calls for exponential investment in infrastructure development.
“We are currently engaging FAA to give JKIA ranking 1 so that it can handle direct flights to the US,” Macharia.