The Kenyan military is once more being reflected in bad light, this time it is being accused of making questionable payments, unexplained spending, payment for shoddy work and failure to channel billions of shillings from the United Nations to the public coffers.
From a report on The Standard the military is being accused of questionable spending of 320 million for the financial year 2013-2014 and also failing to transfer Sh6.1 billion it received from the United Nations for engaging in different peace keeping missions around the world to the exchequer.
The office of the Auditor General after an audit of the books on military expenditure at the Department of Defense (DoD) for the financial year 2013-2014 has discovered among other things that department of defense has no record to substantiate millions of money used to finance trips of its officers, pay per diems and clear said military goods from Mombasa.
In some cases available information shows officers purported to have spend millions on trips outside the country did not leave the country during the said period.
There are also allegations of per diem to four teams “in regional and local study tours” being overpaid was overpaid by Sh19 million
Kenya which has troops in the Africa Union Mission in Somalia, and in different peace-keeping missions around the world is said to have received Sh6.1 billion from the UN but there is no evidence of the actual transfer of the money to the exchequer through bank statements and g-pay records.
