Hun­dreds of CEPEP con­tracts were ter­mi­nat­ed on Fri­day, just days af­ter the Gov­ern­ment an­nounced plans for a full au­dit of CEPEP's as­sets, con­tracts, and op­er­a­tions.

Au­dits had not been con­duct­ed since 2020, and the Gov­ern­ment claimed more than 360 CEPEP con­tracts were signed on the eve of the gen­er­al elec­tion.

The ter­mi­na­tion left over 10,000 work­ers un­em­ployed and trig­gered crit­i­cism from Op­po­si­tion MPs with­in hours of the an­nounce­ment.