The United States has declared the sale of Sh43 billion ($418 million) combat aircraft to the Kenyan military clean.
The purchase was Okayed after a five-month review by the Government Accountability Office.
It found the order, the biggest weapons deal in the history of the US to have complied with US laws governing the Foreign Military Sales (FMS).
In a report by the State agency, cites Business Daily, “the events related to this FMS transaction are consistent with the standard FMS process.
The State agency probed the deal on behalf of the US Congress’ which is the investigative arm of government.
The report also indicated “they did not have any reason to believe that Kenya improperly selected the AT-802L.”
Further, “[The Congress] determined that Kenya made a reasonable choice when it selected the AT-802L aircraft.”
However, US Congressman Ted Budd criticized the deal on Wednesday after the report was released.
“A report on a Kenyan arms sale that did not involve speaking to Kenyan officials is virtually useless,” he said.
But the agency said it reviewed all documentation regarding the purchase of the combat aircraft and also interviewed officials in four US agencies.
The purchase of the weapons had been approved by Congress early this year following an affirmative State Department assessment of the deal.
But Congreeman Budd, a Republican threw the deal to controversy suggesting that the AT-802L would not meet Kenya’s stated objectives.
He had also said that Kenyan government may not have acted in its own best interests in specifying it particularly wanted to buy up a dozen of the AT-802L planes.
Texas-based Air Tractor manufactures the weaponised crop duster aircraft.
Kenya intends to use them in Somalia where her soldiers have been deployed under Amisom to fight al-shabaab militants.
They will be sold to Kenya through a contract with New York-based L3 Technologies.