Millions Misused at Wajir County Council....
Publication Date: 20/01/2010
By Abu Rajman
Millions of shillings meant for projects in cash-strapped Wajir County Council have been misappropriated, a team of investigators has said.
The missing money is part of more than Sh40 million from the Local Authority Transfer Fund disbursed to the council in November.
An ongoing internal audit preliminary report indicates that the money was siphoned off through irregular cheques and cash withdrawals, unsupported expenditures and unaccounted for purchases.
The missing millions adversely affected the operations of an already struggling council where hundreds of workers are owed salary arrears of several months.
A team of 10 councillors was contracted by the council to investigate how much is missing so far.
"We are yet to establish the full amount missing so far, but what we have realised is a huge misuse of money," an investigator who asked not to be named said. "We hope to hand in a report within the next few days"
But according to the chairman, Mr Abdullahi Ali, the council investigations are to establish the exact amount missing, and that a big portion of the Local Authority Transfer money was used wisely.
"We are investigating allegations of misuse, but we have used a good portion of the money to pay salary arrears for more than 200 workers," Mr Ali said.
The chairman denied that all the cash from the Local Authority Transfer Fund had been misused, and that the missing amount could add up to several millions.
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