Governor on Hot Soup For Using Illegal Paybill Number to Collect Ksh1.3 Million
Senators on Saturday ordered Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya to appear before the Senate Committee on Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) next week to account for the dissappearance of Ksh1.3 million in public funds.
According to the senators, a discrepancy was identified while conducting an inquiry into the status of the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) and other county revenue management systems.
The Ksh1.3 million is believed to have been lost through revenue collection using an illegal Paybill number, 770478.
The committee detailed that the incident was an economic crime and called for prompt investigations from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC).
However, Natembeya skipped the meeting, leaving the county’s Deputy County Secretary Boniface Wanyonyi with the task of explaining the county’s revenue collection process, specifically the designated revenue collectors.
He told the senators that County Executive Committee (CEC) members were involved in overseeing operations as part of the Rapid Results Initiative (RRI) in a bid to boot revenue collection.
However, Wanyonyi clarified that the CECs were not directly involved in revenue collection.
The committee therefore directed the County Executive to provide relevant documentation within three days.
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