Kenya Power has suspended 59 top leadership of its Supply Chain Division to pave way for a forensic audit.

Kenya Power has therefore appointed an interim procurement lead team to ensure business continuity as the audit procurement division kicks off.

 An investigation was one of the recommendations made by the task force appointed by President Kenyatta to review the company's procurement agreement.

The task force had also recommended an immediate forensic audit to identify areas of misusing funds.

The management had already started implementing the new measures which saw the troubled company registering an increase of  Sh1.5 billion net profit for the financial year ended 30th June 2020.

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Among the reforms that the management implemented was to convert loan agreements into term loan limits which saw the firm saving Sh.3 billion on interest payments and debt recovery in that period.