Kisumu governor Anyang’ Nyong’o is on spot after outrageously spending a whooping sh 3.7 million on a castrated cow.
The irregularity was discovered by Auditor General Edward Ouko who in his report stated that the money was meant to uy dairy cows in the 2017/2018 financial year.
The report states that the County government had planned to purchase 27 high pedigree cows to boost the dairy farming in the County ut the money wasnt used as intended.
During audit the County finance department only presented only one cow, begging the question: where are the rest of the cows if they were purchased at all?
A delivery note from May 2017 showed the cows were allegedly purchased and delivered although there were loopholes in the document including the absence of the registration plate of the said truck.
The mysterious disappearance of county funds is not very strange in the country as there have been other county governments on the spot for similar reasons.
The Auditor General Edward Ouko has given a rare thumbs up to Makueni and Nyandarua counties on the use of public funds.
Mr Ouko issued a clean bill of health, also known as unqualified opinion, in the county executive audit reports for the Financial Year 2017/18.
The achievements by the local governments by governors Kivutha Kibwana and Francis Kimemia are a first since the advent of devolution in 2013.
Muranga’ Embu, Taita-Taveta and Homa Bay were issued with an adverse opinion. This means that although the financial transactions are recorded and there are books of accounts, the Auditor-General may be unsatisfied with the veracity of significant amounts of expenditure.
Consequently, the Auditor-General cannot give a clean or unqualified opinion; and gives an adverse opinion.
The rest of the counties received a qualified opinion. This means that although financial transactions are recorded and are deemed to be in agreement with the underlying records, there may be cases where the Auditor-General is unsatisfied with the veracity of certain expenditures, which in his view may not be significant.
The governors will be summoned by the senate finance committee to explain on the gap identified by the auditor.
Yesterday the Council of governor congratulated Mukueni and Nyandarua for the good progress that they posted.