If their is anything that has been a negative on President Uhuru Kenyatta’s desire to deliver to the country is corruption. Even though he has risen up to occasion to strongly condemn this vice nobody heeds to the warning. It has become a hobby,maybe The president is viewed as a harmless dog which cannot bite.
The same devil of corruption has even struck his own office. The same tick is just in his clothes. How did the tick siphoning funds find its way in their?
The auditor general has come out clearly with a report showing the misappropriation and failure to account for a huge sum of money in the Presidents office. Sum of 2.7 billion. An examination of records shows the Presidency spent Sh2,729,192,010 on ‘confidential expenditure’ in three financial years.
Buying heavy guzzlers machine vehicles
The report indicated available records revealed payments totaling Sh165,587,200 made to companies for supply of motor vehicles were charged to a confidential expenditure account.
The report said verification of the IFMIS ledger showed these payments were not posted, an indication that they could have been unexplained cash withdrawals.
The audit report indicates that examination of the general ledger for 2015-16 revealed confidential expenditure totaling Sh105,000,000 was charged to a general suspense account without verifiable source documents that indicate the approved allocation.
“No satisfactory explanation has been provided for this anomaly,” Ouko said in the report.
Supply of ‘air’
With regards to the expenditure records, goods worth Sh22,324,851 were requisitioned by various State Houses and Lodges, and were procured and received in Nairobi, then issued to respective stations.
However, the report undertaken during January and February 2017 revealed that these goods were never received and there were no documents on record maintained in the field to support receipt.
“In the circumstances, the propriety of expenditure totaling Sh22,324,851 could not be confirmed,” read part of the report.
“Buy tea money”
Ouko in the report disclosed that imprest, better known as petty cash, totaling Sh1,197,000 which ought to have been surrendered or otherwise accounted for on or before June 30, 2016 were outstanding.
He said the IFMIS generated imprest register and trial balance reflect instead outstanding imprest of Sh2,033,608 and Sh9,117,357 respectively as of that date.
Ouko said the presidency failed to satisfactorily explain the resulting differences among the three records.
Unpaid bills
The report indicates that bills worth Sh270,980,438 were pending as at June 30, 2016 as disclosed under Note 16 to the financial statements.
However, bills amounting to Sh61,537,194 of the total were not supported by invoices, delivery notes, contract documents and Local Purchase Orders.
Consequently, their validity, legality, and accuracy could not be confirmed.
Ouko said had the bills been paid and charged to the accounts for the financial year 2015-16, the statement of receipts and payments would have reflected a deficit of Sh211,819,430 instead of Sh59,161,008 now shown.
This also include the list of assets which the presidency cannot account for.