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Governors risk jail for defying summons

Governors risk going to jail if they disobey summons to appear before Senate committees.

The Senate Public Accounts Committee (PAC) told the 29 governors it had summoned that they would be the first casualties of the Public Audit law, which prescribes a three-year jail term or a fine of Sh5 million or both, for non-compliance.

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