Former Gatanga MP and Jubilee vice-chairman David Murathe yesterday said he was only a bank guarantor for a company implicated in the Sh7.8 billion KEMSA deal.
He submitted an affidavit to the Public Investments Committee and denied being a shareholder and director of Kilig.
The company was awarded a Sh4 billion tender to supply 450,000 PPE’s to KEMSA.
Murathe said in the affidavit he was requested by Kilig – then under the directorship of Wilbroad Gachoka and a Chinese national Zhu Jinping – to guarantee payments to a Chinese firm trading as ENTEC Ltd.
ENTEC was the supplier of the PPE kits and Murathe was to guarantee that the company would be paid upon KEMSA effecting payments to Kilig.
ENTEC director Chen Chao said that he got into the deal having known that Murathe “is a respectable high-standing member of society in Kenya”.
“I requested Murathe to be a guarantor for this transaction by being a mandatory signatory together with me in the Kilig account at Equity Bank,” Chao told PIC.
“ENTEC imported an initial batch of 50,000 PPE kits and submitted samples to KEMSA on Kilig account before the intended final delivery to Kemsa on the dates given in the commitment letter.” he said.
Murathe said he was aware that Kilig engaged ENTEC which had the kits for the supply to fulfil the tender requirements.
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