Audit: Sh10 billion wasted in abandoned projects

One of the aircraft unveiled by the late Internal Security Cabinet Joseph Nkaissery in 2016. A police aircraft crashed four months after it was acquired but no compensation claim was made. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

A report by the Auditor General has exposed white elephant projects that gobbled up Sh10 billion of taxpayers' money. More intriguing is that some of the projects were never executed or have stalled yet payments were made.

In his latest report, Edward Ouko, shines the spotlight on dodgy projects into which public funds were sank, some dating decades ago like the fertiliser factory that was never built despite Sh6.3 billion expenditure. It also cites nearly Sh1 billion spent on the renovation of two Kenyan embassies abroad, one which developed cracks soon after completion.