MPs want the KSL management probed
By Mercy Mwai, July 24, 2025MPs now want various investigative agencies to probe and prosecute top management of the Kenya School of Law (KSL) over irregular awards of a contract for the building of an ultra-modern library and Moot Courts at a cost of Ksh488.7 million.
The lawmakers have also directed the Auditor General, Nancy Gathungu, to carry out a special audit of the library to ascertain how the contract was issued, the extensions issued on the project, as well as give details of the variations, if any.
Further, the MPs also slapped the Chief Executive Officer, Henry Kibet, with a Ksh500,000 penalty for failing to provide them with adequate information regarding the project.
The money, the committee said, should not be charged from the school’s account but from personal accounts.
At a meeting with Kibet and other senior managers, the MPs who sit in the Public Investment Committee on Education and Governance, chaired by Bumula MP Wamboka Wanami, regretted that there was no value for money for the project.
“What they have done at KSL is shoddy and embarrassing. We are directing the Auditor General to do a special audit of the building within one month,” Wamboka observed.
The committee’s decision came after Kibet and the facility’s accountant failed to give satisfactory answers to most questions raised by the institution’s financial statements, as highlighted by the Auditor General.
In addition, their decision follows a tour of the facility, where they said, despite it being at 97 per cent complete, the works done were shoddy and unacceptable.
Bomachoge Chache MP Alfah Miruka reminded the management that taking responsibility for the unanswered questions raised by the Auditor General could make them accomplices in the said case.
Gathungu’s in her report for the financial year ending June 2023, said it was not possible to confirm that the school obtained economy and efficiency from the expenditure.
According to the report, the contract for the construction of the Ultra-Modern Library and Moot Courts was awarded to a contractor at a cost of Ksh488.7 million and was to take three years up to September 2016.
Despite an amount of Ksh358.7 million being paid to the contractor by June 30 2023, physical inspection and verification of the progress of works revealed that although the contractor was still on site, the works had not been completed, seven years after the expected completion period.
In addition, the report says that the management did not provide for audit verification, the site inspection and meeting minutes between the Contractor, the School’s Management and the Project Manager.