For once, act on catalogue of misuse of public funds

In what is clearly an indictment on the much touted Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS), the Auditor General’s report for financial year 2015/2016 outlines how state corporations paid billions of shillings for ghost projects, inflated contract prices and violated clear procurement laws.

It is an expression of the disdain public office holders have for the law and the dictates of accountability that despite numerous other reports of sleaze and wastage of public funds by the Auditor General, it has been business as usual as if the reports were minor bumps on the gravy train to be ignored as the eating continues. Yet that has negatively impacted service delivery and perpetrated corruption, a vice that continues to receive more lip service than action.