A report by the Auditor General, Nancy Gathungu has revealed several discrepancies in expenditure by the Kisumu County Government.
In her report, Gathungu alleged that the Kisumu County Government made a Ksh 5.6 million arrears payment to 63 workers, an amount to which she stated the employees were not entitled to.
Similarly, 33 employees had an overpayment of their basic salaries amounting to Ksh1.7 million while sixteen employees had an overpayment of leave allowance of Ksh304,181.
“For the twelve months from July 2022 to June 2023, five employees had an overpayment of house allowance totalling Ksh 224,900,” the Auditor General stated.
Questions were further raised on the payment of Ksh3 million to the council of governors. According to the Auditor General, the amount comprised of Ksh2,000,000 paid towards annual intergovernmental contributions and Ksh1,000,000 being annual contributions towards legal fees.
"However, Management did not justify the payments since the Council has its own budget as provided by Section 37 of the Inter-Governmental Relations Act, 2012," Nacy Gathungu stated.
"In the circumstances, Management was in breach of the law," the Auditor General added.
Governor Anyang' Nyong'o was also put in the spotlight over an irregular expenditure of Ksh5 million incurred in respect of Kisumu All Stars football players and the technical bench personnel
According to the Auditor General, Information provided by the county government indicated that the employees had been engaged as revenue officers but deployed in the Department of Sports as support staff.
"In addition, evidence of the tasks for which they were paid, their job descriptions, duty stations and their terms of engagement were not provided for review," read part of the statement by Nancy Gathungu.
"In the circumstances, the value for money regularity of the expenditure of Ksh5 million on compensation to employees could not be confirmed."
Other questionable matters highlighted by the auditor general included the irregular award of tender and unprocedural termination of the construction of a cancer centre at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Referral Hospital.
