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Audit queries Kenya’s military expenditure

The military is in a spot over failure to account for millions of shillings. [PHOTO: FILE/ STANDARD]

Kenya’s military is on the dock over hundreds of millions of shillings in questionable payments, unexplained spending, payment for shoddy work and failure to channel billions of shillings from the United Nations to the public coffers.

In an audit report seen by The Standard on Saturday, Auditor General Edward Ouko has revealed that the military flouted financial regulations, and ignored queries from the auditor on how public money is spent.

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