Their payment was frozen after suspicions that they bought maize elsewhere and sold it to the NCPB, which had been restricted to buy grains from farmers. “I spoke to the SFR and they promised to release funds to clear these farmers,” Mr Sang told the Business Daily. MIDDLEMENKoilel Farm supplied 6,000 bags of maize for Sh19.2 million and told the EACC it produced the grains from its 430-acre farm in Uasin Gishu. NCPD PURCHASESThe traders bought maize cheaply from farmers including from Uganda for sale to NCPB. Maize farmers have this year shunned NCPB following a sharp increase of prices in the market, leaving grain agency having purchased just a fraction of the required stocks.

Source: Daily Nation April 25, 2019 05:02 UTC