Sonko begins investigating millions Kidero spend on beautification of city

City residents walking on a section of Uhuru Highway that had been planted with grass by former governor Evans Kidero. [File, Standard]

Members of the county assembly have started investigating how City Hall spent Sh48 million on a beautification exercise ahead of President Barack Obama's and Pope Francis’s visit to Kenya in 2015.

The Auditor General has revealed a Sh48 million overdraft in one of City Hall’s Co-operative Bank accounts. The county public accounts committee is seeking to establish the expenditure of the money that was not captured in the budget and shed light on exactly what was procured to inflate the bill to Sh48 million.