The
Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has handed its
preliminary report on investigations into the Sh37 billion forensic
contract scandal between Lugumi Enterprises Ltd and the Police Force to
the National Assembly Speaker Job Ndugai, The Citizen has been reliably
informed.
One
member of the PAC confided with this paper today saying they decided to
write to Mr Ndugai a summary of their findings and presented to him
names of MPs who would form a subcommittee to dig further on the matter.
“The
speaker is expected to give his approval, and then the subcommittee
will be given all technical, financial and logistical assistance by the
National Assembly to conduct further probe on this case,” said The
Citizen’s well-placed source, adding:
“This
issue is very thorny, and it involves some big people in the system and
that makes it more complicated, but at the same time interesting.”
Section 117 (18) allows any parliamentary committee to form a subcommittee for a better execution of its responsibilities.
However,
when confronted by reporters today, PAC deputy chairman and Sumbawanga
Urban MP Aeshi Hilary neither confirmed nor denied about the matter,
only saying they were still busy probing the matter and they would come
out tomorrow and tell the public how far they had gone with their
investigations.
Source:TheCitizen