Nairobi, March 15 -- Parliament has blamed millers for supplying maize flour past the contract period, further complicating the Sh2.9 billion that the processors say they are owed by the government.

The House Committee on Agriculture said millers might have extended the supply of subsidy flour up to six days, way after the contract between them and the State had been revoked.

However, millers said they were not served with a revocation letter and they only learned of it in social media.

"Why did you continue supplying the flour when the Ministry of Agriculture had stopped the programme," asked the committee's chairperson John Mutunga.

In response, millers said the letter was not addressed to them but meant for Agriculture PS from the ...