The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is on the spot for spending millions of shillings on its staff in the year the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) arraigned its top officials over corruption. KPC spent the millions on its staff in the year to June 2018 with Auditor-General Edward Ouko flagging expenditure of Sh306.9 million on payment of overtime allowances to 1,080 staff members.
“Of this amount (Sh306,955,912), Sh97,661,089 was paid contrary to the company’s staff rules and regulations to 231 staff who were earning responsibility allowances. “In addition, overtime allowance payments
Mr Ouko also raised the red flag over KPC’s failure to adhere to the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) rules on subsistence allowances. He said KPC made subsistence allowance payments totalling Sh509.6 million to travelling company staff during the year under review based on identical rates across towns for various job cadres contrary to rules issued by the SRC.