Tough questions await governor Anyang Nyong’o’s administration as Members of the County Assemblies protested against what they termed questionable spending.
The MCAs have raised questions over some expenditures during the 2017/2018 financial year even as they poked holes in the projects planned for the 2019/2020 financial year.
Top of the list includes the decision by the executive to splash some Sh17.5m to buy 35 motorcycles as well as 85 goats at a cost of Sh2.5m.
Questions are also being asked on the justification of some of the amounts spent by different departments including Nyong’o’s office on questionable projects.
In a report tabled before the House for debate and unanimously adopted by members, the MCAs unearthed a series of discrepancies among them the executive's failure to provide a list of the status of projects that it has done.
This comes even as MCAs talked of several projects have stalled in their wards.
Budget Chair Judith Ogaga, noted that there was no equity in distribution of projects among departments.
In the Tourism, Culture and Information department, the ward reps have questioned why a studio that was set to be built at Kanyakwar at a cost of Sh7m was never done.
Another expenditure of Sh3.9m to rehabilitate the Baskeball Court at the Jomo Kenyatta Sportsground has also come under scrutiny by the ward reps.
Nyong’o’s administration could have also spent millions of taxpayer’s money on non-existent projects after the ward reps also marked some Sh4.7m reportedly spent on an Egg Collection Centre.
The committee also say the executive failed to provide a list of beneficiaries of a Sh 2.9m lantern project as well as listing of people living with disability who benefitted from a Sh8m capacity building programme.
During the period under review, Nyong'o is said to have spent Sh1.4m to equip a brick-making centre despite the policy that is in place not supporting the use of brick.
According to the ward reps, the county executive has also failed to explain how some Sh334m was spent on grass-root programme besides how it allocated Sh175m for capacity building.
County Secretary Olang'o Onudi said the report capturing the concerns of MCAs was yet to reach the executive:"We have not seen official communication from the assembly."
