Hundreds of thousands of condoms, mosquito nets, and tuberculosis drugs worth $100,000 (£77,000) are said to have vanished from a Kenya Medical Supplies Authority warehouse (Kemsa).
According to the UN’s Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, they are believed to have been stolen and resold on the black market and to private chemists.
It also accuses the agency of vastly inflating drug prices, with some drugs being sold for a hundred times the correct price.
The government agency has yet to respond to the allegations.
Kemsa made headlines in 2020 following the discovery of fraud in the procurement of Covid-19 medical supplies.
Tenders worth $78 million were allegedly given inequitably to politically connected individuals and businesses.
As a result, President Uhuru Kenyatta disbanded its board of directors and top management.
The UN Global Fund, which has given Kenya more than $1.4 million in the last two decades, has recommended that Kemsa be investigated further in connection with the missing medicines.
