The military will take over all planes owned by the Kenya Police, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), Kenya Forest Service (KFS), KenGen, Kenya Power, Ketraco and other parastatals.
The planes will be managed and operated by the Kenya Airforce.
This has caused jittery among staff of the Police Airwing who will be rendered jobless.
A source in Government said the move is aimed at stopping misuse of Parastatal Choppers by Politicians and other Government functionaries.
In May this year, a petitioner asked the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission about the status of an ongoing investigation at the New KCC over the irregular hiring of a chopper.
Peter Ombati said that EACC had taken long to complete investigations into the hiring of a chopper for use by a Cabinet Secretary on a tour of the firm.
Ombati said the EACC told the court that interrogations were at an advanced stage in 2018.
Ombati had sued New KCC for allegedly paying Sh2,600,000 (US$25,900) on August 23, 2017, to hire a chopper for Trade and Cooperatives Cabinet Secretary Aden Mohamed to use to inspect the modernization of the firm’s plants.
The helicopter was to ferry guests to Mombasa, Nyahururu and Eldoret.
Ombati argued that no modernization was taking place at the time.
Ombati was then the NKCC company secretary.
The then New KCC chairman Matu Wamae had defended the payment saying the helicopter was hired for a government function.
“We used the chopper to ferry Deputy President William Ruto and CS Mohamed to pay farmers their arrears for two days in Kiganjo, Nyahururu, and Eldoret,” Sigey told The Standard newspaper in 2018.
He said he accompanied the two on their two-day tour of Nyeri and Eldoret.
Whistleblowers within NKCC noted that the chopper never rendered the service but instead the money was siphoned out by the MD.
The EACC was also probing other financial improprieties at New KCC.
According to the Standard Newspaper, on the same day, Sigey lodged claims for out-of-pocket allowances for meals and accommodation totaling Sh63,000 while on official duty in Naivasha, Kericho, and Eldoret.
The paper reported that the documents which have been forwarded to EACC, the MD was alleged to have claimed a total of Sh4.9 million for out-of-pocket and accommodation allowances between 2014 and 2017.
On July 3 2017, Sigey was reportedly paid Sh4,200 for meals and accommodation in Machakos whereas available records showed that in many cases he was irregularly claiming the out of pocket money.
The following day, he allegedly pocketed Sh226,574 for meals and accommodation while in Sweden and Finland.
And on July 5, he was reportedly paid Sh37,800 for official duties in Kericho and Eldoret.
According to EACC, Sigey’s trips across the country were arranged in such a way that most of them ended up in Kericho, Eldoret, or Kitale, three towns where he was said to own homes.
EACC spokesman Yassin Amaro then noted that EACC was trying to establish if Sigey was always on official duty when he went to Eldoret, Kericho, or Kitale.
Sigey defended his numerous trips.
“I travel a lot to supervise 29 outposts spread across Kenya. I must do this to make sure that NKCC is at the same level with competitors. If I had just been sitting in the office, I could not have revived NKCC to achieve a financial base of Sh4 billion from a dying outfit earlier,” he told the Standard.
Amaro confirmed that the anti-graft body had received complaints about Sigey and had instituted an investigation.