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How taxpayers lost billions in edible oils scandal

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A supermarket attendant helps a customer shop for cooking oil in a supermarket. [Denis Kibuchi, Standard]

Kenyans lost billions in the bungled State-backed edible oils scandal, Auditor General Nancy Gathungu says.

Gathungu is now calling on investigative agencies to conclude their probe to allow for the prosecution of culpable persons and entities.

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