City Hall is under siege over money set aside for bursaries and traced to have been deposited in a foreign donations account.
Members of the county assembly are up in arms demanding answers as to who deposited the Ksh297 million for the city wards bursary fund to a bank account opened by an Australian University.
According to the county assembly minority whip Peter Imwatok the money was deposited in an account belonging to Maryland University in Australia.
The money had remained in the account for several months before it was detected as having been erroneously deposited to the institution's account.
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"We want to know who sent the money there and for what, and who returned the money on June 4," the minority whip demanded when he moved a motion on the mix up on Tuesday.
He informed the house that the University had created the account to aid donations that were meant for the construction of Dandora Primary school.
Maryland University, when initiating the project, gave conditions that they would open an account with the county government through which funds for the project would be injected.
The House Education Committee chairperson Ms Millicent Mugadi admitted before the house that the money had been deposited erroneously and paybacks had been processed.
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It also emerged that delays witnessed in disbursements as a result of typographical errors in statement of amounts paid out were wrongly written.
The Nairobi County Bursary Fund is supposedly meant for the 85 wards in the county. Each of the 59,500 bursaries was worth Ksh5,000, totaling up to Sh297,500,000.
