Parliamentary Committee Orders KICC Management To Avail Land Ownership Documents
PiC members from left; Mwangi Kiunjuri, Babu Owino and Adan Keynan during yesterday's session.
By PSCU
The National Assembly Public Investments Committee on Commercial Affairs and Energy has given the management of the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) two weeks to avail all documentation relating to ownership of the land on which the Convention stands.
The committee chaired by David Pkosing (Pokot South) gave the directive when it probed the KICC management over audit queries in financial books for the Financial Years 2019/2020 and 2020/2021.
The committee had questioned why the KICC management had failed to avail any documentation on ownership of the facility land, despite the section on which the Garden Square Restaurant stands being in dispute between the Corporation and the County Government of Nairobi.
Ms. Ondeng indicated that the Corporation’s stated value in FY2019/2020 of KSh2.3B only related to the block where the KICC tower block is situated; and that the area surrounding the building is not part of the stated value since it is un-allocated Government land.
Among other queries probed by the committee was KICC’s failure to honour tenancy agreements, leading to accrued debts of up to KSh36B, arising from occupation of the 18th by the Private Secretary to the third President for the period between July 1, 2013 to July 1, 2016.
According to the Office Auditor General, recoverability of the debt was doubtful and it was impossible to confirm that the trade and other receivables balance of KSh829,479,034 as at 30 June, 2020 was fairly stated.
Pkosing sought to know what efforts the KICC management had instituted to recover the funds and if the lease agreement for the said floor had been regularlized.
“If indeed this revenue has been lost what efforts has the Corporation put in place for recovery?”posed Pkosing.
Ms. Ondeng indicated that the matter had been brought to the attention of the immediate former Committee which had observed that correspondences from the Government had never acknowledged that it gave the retired President the Office Space 18th Floor at the KICC.
“Arising from the PIC recommendation, the Corporation is awaiting the Board’s approval for write off as recommended,” said Ms. Ondeng.
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