The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has summoned President Uhuru Kenyatta’s niece Nana Gecaga and the KICC board over alleged mishandling of multibillion-shilling tenders for the World Trade Organisation(WTO) meeting last December.
Gecaga is the acting managing director of KICC.
Details emerged as suppliers wrote a letter to the president to come to their rescue as they have been ruined financially and banks are now going after their property.
The suppliers said 200 providers and contractors are owed more than Sh1.5 billion.
Gecaga was, however, appointed acting KICC managing director four months after the WTO procurement had happened.
The MP’s want the board chaired by former South Mugirango MP Omingo Magara to explain why the management is yet to pay suppliers a year later.
KICC board was summoned to appear to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity .
“The board must explain the circumstances under which money owed to suppliers is being withheld for more than a year,” committee chairman Johnson Sakaja said yesterday to the star.
The board previously said that the tender process was fraudulent and prices were hiked, which led to the cancellation of bids.
But, in their letter to State House, the suppliers said the board did not raise any question on the tender process until the WTO meeting was over.