Nairobi MCAs on Thursday demanded an explanation from City Hall over Sh1.2 billion taxpayers’ money that has not been accounted for.
City Hall is said to have spent over Sh1.2 billion more than the funds requisitioned for and approved by the Controller of Budget (COB).
The MCAs revealed that before the County Assembly’s Budget and Appropriations Committee that the county government in the first quarter of the 2018/2019 financial year, between July and September, 2018, spent Sh4.81 billion for operations although they received only Sh3.52 billion from the CRF as approved by COB.
They say overspending reveals that the county has funds that have not been deposited in the bank contrary to Governor Mike Sonko’s assertion, who has always claimed that the county’s revenue is directly deposited in the Central Bank.
Ward representatives want to know where the county got the extra Sh1.2 billion from, a sum that largely went to recurrent expenditure.