Agriculture Ministry entered into $430m fertiliser supply contracts which weren’t budgeted for – AG

THE Auditor General’s Report on accounts of the Republic for the financial year ended December 31 2020 has revealed that the Ministry of Agriculture engaged 15 suppliers of fertiliser and seed at a contract sum of US$430,336,620 under the Direct Input Supply which was not provided for in the budget. And the report revealed that during the period 2018/2019 to 2020/2021, the Ministry received amounts totalling K10,866,214 from insurance companies as compensation for farmers who were affected by bad weather but the funds were not disbursed as at June 30, 2021. Meanwhile, the report disclosed that salaries in amounts totalling K44,118 were paid to an individual who was not known at the Ministry and as at June 30, 2021, the...