The Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) paid its staff Ksh 17 million to cheer the Bandari Football Club matches in the year ending June 2019.
According to a report by the Auditor General tabled in parliament, the allowances paid to the staff are part of Ksh96 million unsupported sports expenditure that has been questioned by the auditor.
The Auditor General, Nancy Gathungu, argued that KPA is an independent entity, therefore, it has its own budget.
Additionally, the auditor general stated that the authority paid salaries and allowances to non-employees who joined the KPA cheering team both locally and abroad.
"The management did not provide details on how the term management units employees and non-employees players were selected to participate in various tournaments and subsistence allowance paid.
"Further, an approved policy on the terms of engagement with the team management units on the engagements of non-employees were not provided for audit review."
Gathungu also questioned the payment of Ksh 53 million which was paid to the employees as a bonus.
The report also indicated that KPA might have inflated the costs of manufacture of concrete barriers by Sh832 million, that is Ksh67,000 per barrier.
The barriers should have cost Ksh 151 million but were inflated to Ksh 983 million.
Gathungu faulted the accounting officer saying that he might have commenced procurement without a budget.
Further, the auditor general noted that KPA indicated that it had imported overalls from Canada at Sh47 million yet they had labels of a local manufacturer.
Hence, the authority paid Ksh 30 million more for locally made overalls.
