Accounting officers to be charged with graft

National Assembly PAC committee members Junet Mohamed, Opiyo Wandayi (chair) and Jessica Mbalu (vice chair) during a past session at Parliament Buildings. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

MPs want investigative agencies to probe and charge accounting officers who incurred irregular payment for goods and services during the 2016-2017 financial year.

The legislators want the officers to be charged with financial misconduct within the next three months. This is after the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in its 2016-17 report, tabled in the House last week, accused the accounting officers of presiding over graft and failing to observe relevant laws.