The New Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (NKPCU) is under scrutiny by Kenyan MPs over KSh1 billion in unsupported expenditures and administrative irregularities, including the unlawful retention of staff and ethnic imbalance.

• More than KSh1 billion in expenditures for the Farm Input Subsidy Programme lacked adequate supporting documentation, with KSh940 million for farm inputs and KSh61 million for awareness campaigns questioned by the Auditor-General.
• CEO Timothy Mirugi and Director of Finance and Accounting Ednah Kerubo faced the National Assembly’s Public Investments Committee on Social Services, Administration and Agriculture (PIC-SSAA), chaired by Navakholo MP Emmanuel Wangwe.
• The NKPCU also illegally retained eight officers beyond the mandatory retirement age of 60 without approval, overspent its budget by KSh73 million, and exhibited ethnic imbalance with nearly half of its staff from one community.