Nairobi, April 3 -- Documents before parliament reveal that at least five companies whose procurement by the State Department for Environment remains doubtful, pocketed a share of Sh4.3 billion used to organize the inaugural Africa Climate Summit (ACS) held in Kenya last year.

The documents, in our possession, show that dollar-denominated funds were paid by the donors directly to the companies that were contracted by the State Department for Environment to provide services for the summit held from September 4th to 6th 2023 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC).

This comes even as MPs questioned how ACS CEO Mr Joseph Ng'ang'a was appointed and how his term was subsequently extended.

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