The Hustler Fund, a flagship programme of President William Ruto’s administration, was launched to support youth and small-scale entrepreneurs.
Electricity consumers have over the years been overbilled owing to malpractices in the procurement of heavy fuel oil that thermal power producers use to generate electricity. A forensic audit on the procurement of heavy fuel oil (HFO) by the thermal Independent Power Producers (IPPs) by the Auditor General shows that consumers paid billions of shillings […]
The Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) has been in the news lately after the release of a report by the Auditor General. The report details several issues of concern within the organization, and Eng. Silas Kinoti, the Director-General of KURA, has been at the center of the storm. The Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has once […]
The state appears to be uncomfortable with parastatals engaging international consultancy firms in matters auditing and realignments. Parliament has directed Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu to order all parastatals under the Ministry of Energy including Kenya Power and KenGen to stop hiring private auditing firms. The National Assembly raised the red flag that State corporations under the […]
Officials at the Kenyan Medical Training College on the Kuria campus collected $ 7.1 million in cash from students as fees, but never transferred the money. The money was in the form of cash collected directly from the students, but the same was not reflected in the students’ accounts in June 2019. Auditor General Nancy […]
Another 47 MPs have been fingered over misuse of funds meant for bursaries and development projects in their constituencies.In various reports tabled in the National Assembly, Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has detailed how the MPs misappropriated funds allocated to their areas.Among the constituencies identified are Nyatike, Mt Elgon, Lagdera, Suba North, Kuria East, North Mugirango, […]
Nothing is new under the sun and corruption is becoming a norm in Kenya, nothing is too divine to touch, while country struggles with the adverse effects of the pandemic that has seen incomes shrink with many left out in unemployment, the pandemic has been a blessing to a few crooks privileged to hold high […]
The Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) is on the spot over Sh16.6 million paid to three MPs irregularly. The three lawmakers blew out Sh16.6 million in triple payments for domestic travel, mileage claims and overseas travel, all done in the same day. The three MPs were paid Sh11,392,479 in domestic travel and subsistence in respect of […]
The Employment and Labour Relations Court has suspended the recruitment for an auditor General after the outspoken activist Okiya Omtatah filed a petition against the selecting panel. Auditor General position fell vacant last year in August after then Auditor General Edward Ouko’s term came to an end. Public Service Commission had stated that the government […]
Embu county assembly has been trying to impeach Governor Martin Wambora since the first month he was elected in the Office. The governor who has nine-lives like a stray cat has been, fortunately for him, surviving all impeachment attempts against his reign. However, Embu county Public Accounts and Investment Committee has released damning details after […]
Former Auditor general Edward Ouko’s report for the 2017/18 financial year that ended in June has revealed that James Ongwae led Kisii County can’t account for pending bills worth Ksh1.26 billion. The Audit, also reveals that Kisii county used Sh255 million own-generated revenue without banking nor supporting documents on how the were utilized. According to […]
Early this month, this site published a story that Daveks NCC tycoon owner had bought the debt ridden Athi River Mining cement plant. And today, according to an audit report by the Auditor General, Pensioners lost Sh9 million for the 2.9 million shares that the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) bought in now auctioned Athi […]
Auditor General report has revealed that Counties have been repaying ghost suppliers of the Health ministry’s leased Sh38 billion medical equipment four years. Counties are caughing out billions of shillings repaying not only ghost suppliers but also crippling county taxpayers by forcefully buying equipments without any recorded evidence of their benefits. County Health facilities are […]
