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KNH, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital among 223 hospitals with Sh11.4 billion uncollected revenue
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 18, 2025

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has warned that the delays in collections now risk forcing counties to divert resources from other departments to susta...

21 public universities at risk of collapse due to Sh42.5 billion debt, Auditor General warns
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 18, 2025

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu revealed that the continued operations of many of these universities were being sustained only through government suppo...

12 public universities cannot account for land, assets worth Sh19.6 billion, audit reveals
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 18, 2025

Gathungu said the universities did not have legal evidence to confirm ownership of the assets reflected in their financial statements.

Audit report reveals taxpayers paid Sh3 million rent for former Prisons boss
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 18, 2025

According to the audit, the State Department for Correctional Services signed a tenancy agreement with a private service provider to lease a house for...

Audit reveals Sh955 million collected by hospitals not deposited in county accounts
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 16, 2025

The money, generated from patient fees, pharmacy sales, laboratory services, outpatient visits, and inpatient care, was supposed to be deposited into...

Audit exposes Sh229 million in unaccounted imprests across 12 counties
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 15, 2025

Beyond imprests, the Auditor General noted several governance gaps that affect the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of county financial stateme...

Audit exposes Sh495 million in abandoned NG-CDF projects
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 15, 2025

In 18 constituencies, completed projects valued at Sh101.1 million had not been put to use, with the report describing this as wasteful expenditure an...

Public universities' debt hits Sh76.1 billion, raising sustainability concerns - Auditor General
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 15, 2025

The audit covering 42 universities found that Sh10.96 billion of the debt is long-term, while Sh68.4 billion represents current liabilities.

Audit reveals Sh4.1 billion in NG-CDF bursary funds unaccounted for
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 15, 2025

The audit revealed that 86 constituencies failed to present records for Sh2.12 billion, including receipts from schools, acknowledgement forms from st...

MPs summon Auditor General over suspected flawed audit reports
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 14, 2025

Committee chairman and Bumula MP Wanami Wamboka accused the audit office of weakening findings, failing to flag major issues, and clearing chief execu...

Millions at risk as Agricultural Finance Corporation fails to recover loans, manage payroll
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 14, 2025

At the Eldoret branch, officials overdrawn Sh11.8 million in 2018, yet management has provided no updates on recovering the money despite a court ruli...

Auditor General uncovers Sh3.4 billion manual salary payments in counties
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 13, 2025

In Mombasa, 16 employees were promoted without undergoing performance appraisals, while in Kisumu, some workers advanced by more than two job groups i...

Auditor General flags massive procurement violations across 32 counties
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 12, 2025

Procurement plans for the financial year were submitted late or not at all by many counties, contravening Regulation 8 of the Public Procurement and A...

Auditor General uncovers missing land titles, asset records in 20 counties
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 12, 2025

The counties found to have these gaps include Elgeyo Marakwet, Nakuru, Kakamega, Lamu, Kisii, Taita Taveta, Garissa, Isiolo, Bomet, Embu, Kirinyaga, N...

Audit flags seven counties over Sh880 million in unaccounted bursary funds
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 11, 2025

The audit report highlights widespread irregularities in the allocation of scholarships and bursaries, with some counties unable to provide supporting...

Postal Corporation of Kenya on the brink of collapse amid Sh7.3 billion deficit, audit reveals
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 11, 2025

The Sh147 million in nugatory expenditure resulted from PCK’s failure to remit staff pension deductions on time.

Counties sink billions into stalled and abandoned projects, audit report reveals
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 11, 2025

249 projects worth Sh20 billion started by 33 counties have stalled and been abandoned, while 40 completed projects in 10 counties, valued at Sh366.4...

Nairobi County owes Sh6.3 billion to just four advocates, Auditor General reveals
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 11, 2025

The figure accounts for 29 per cent of the county’s total pending legal fees of Sh21.4 billion, which in turn represents 11 per cent of the total pend...

Auditor General questions AFA’s Sh200 million payouts to cane farmers
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 08, 2025

Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu said her review revealed cases where payments were made without proper documentation, as well as instances where the sa...

Hiring freeze cripples service delivery in over 60 state agencies
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 07, 2025

The Treasury-imposed freeze, which began last year as part of efforts to control the wage bill, has been blamed for blocking the recruitment of essent...

CoG Chair Ahmed Abdullahi questions Auditor General’s fairness in county oversight
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 07, 2025

In her findings, Auditor General Nancy Gathungu criticised counties for poor financial discipline, pointing to excessive spending, misallocation of re...

Auditor General flags NEMA for relying on a single officer to evaluate thousands of projects
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 07, 2025

NEMA relies almost entirely on quantity estimates submitted by companies themselves, with only one in-house officer tasked with checking thousands of...

Counties drain Sh15 billion in legal fees as key services suffer
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 06, 2025

Nairobi County was found to have the highest legal bill, owing Sh6.2 billion to just four advocates, a figure that makes up 29 per cent of its Sh21.4...

Sh1.8 billion in unlawful eCitizen charges revealed in audit spark concern over government accountability
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 05, 2025

The audit also found a Sh2.57 billion balance in the government’s Settlement Account as of June 30, 2024, which could not be linked to any invoices fr...

Audit reveals KNTC let Sh40.6 million worth of food rot amid poor oversight and overstocking
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 04, 2025

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu, in her report for the year ended June 30, 2024, revealed that the losses resulted from ineffective internal controls a...

Audit flags 25 TVET institutions for breaching procurement, financial regulations
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 04, 2025

The report also exposed systemic flaws in financial management, staffing and oversight, raising concerns over the credibility and transparency of the...

Auditor General flags REREC for illegally siphoning Sh110 million from fuel levy
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 04, 2025

The Corporation had previously drawn Sh1.35 billion from the same fund in the 2020/21 financial year to cover undisclosed expenses, breaching the law...

Government's subsidised gas project in limbo as millions of cylinders lie unused due to lack of funds, audit shows
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 04, 2025

Only 5,444 out of 161,448 six-kilogramme cylinders have been filled with gas, raising doubts over the viability of the clean energy initiative launche...

Education stakeholders urge EACC, DCI to probe Sh3.7 billion ghost schools scam
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 04, 2025

The audit, covering four financial years from 2020/21 to 2023/24, shows that fake schools and ghost learners consumed billions in government funds, ev...

Audit exposes KICC spent Sh30.9 million on hotel meetings contrary to law
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 04, 2025

The report also revealed that the Centre has not secured legal ownership documents for three parcels of land, including the one on which the iconic to...

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