The Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry, and Cooperatives chaired by Hon. James Gakuya met with official of Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC) led by the Managing Director  Ms. Pamela Mutua. The Committee questioned Ms. Mutua on the Corporation's procurement processes.

In her submission, Ms.  Mutua told the Committee that the Corporation has partnered with the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development among others to avail relevant input for the agricultural sector. According to the MD, in order to ensure that the products reach consumers across the country the Corporation has appointed distributors to support this value chain.

In addition, Ms. Mutua said sourcing of suppliers was done through bidding and the winners were invited for negotiations.

She also gave the quantities for other commodities that have so far been imported as follows; 12,500MT of parboiled rice (250,000 bags of 50kgs), 85,000MT of white rice (1,700,000 bags of 50kgs), and 63,310MT of cooking oil (3,165,500 jerrycans of 20L).

In regard to the tenders, Hon. Gakuya gave the Corporation one week to avail to all the tendering documents for the last two financial years.