Kenya Meat Commission has enhanced the collection of its house rent in a bid of increasing revenue, says the company’s managing commissioner.
Addressing the press at the factory in Athi River town on Wednesday, Joseph Learamo said the new mode of rent collection was one of the strategies in the company’s Turn Around Strategic Development Plan to make itself sustainable.
“We have revised our mode of collecting house rent from the properties were own within the company’s compound in Athi River plant and in town,” said Learamo.
Learamo said an audit had been done on the house by an independent firm hired by the company which found out that Kenya Meat Commission has in the past been losing millions of shillings on house rent annually.
He said the loss was due to unscrupulous deals and dealings among certain officials and senior employees of the company and tenants.
Learamo noted that some of the employees had sublet the firm’s houses hence collected rent at the expense of the company.
He said all of the loopholes had been sealed by the new strategy asserting the revenue will definitely improve once implemented.
Learamo said the company will also increase its rent soon.