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Auditor General Nancy Gathungu lays bare financial, governance crisis at NYS
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 29, 2025

NYS' financial stability is in doubt after it recorded liabilities equal to its total assets at Sh3.3 billion, and posted a negative working capital o...

Auditor General blames underfunding for Kenya's poor global audit ranking
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 28, 2025

Gathungu added that Kenya’s poor showing on the World Bank’s Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) Independence Index 2021 is primarily due to the office’...

Judiciary paid Sh14 billion in staff compensation without records for 2,180 employees - Auditor General
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 28, 2025

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has revealed that only 136 of the 2,316 newly reported employees had supporting contract documents, making the remainin...

Auditor-General exposes widespread waste, irregularities in government spending
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 27, 2025

The Auditor General’s latest report for the 2023/2024 financial year shows that 24 ministries and departments have failed to complete projects valued...

Postal Corporation of Kenya on brink of collapse over Sh7.7 billion deficit, Auditor General warns
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 27, 2025

The audit discloses that while the corporation’s current assets stood at Sh1.8 billion, its current liabilities ballooned to Sh9.5 billion, creating a...

Auditor General raises alarm over lack of legal backing in Huduma Kenya operations
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 27, 2025

The audit also found that the Service Delivery Summit, the oversight body that was supposed to meet at least twice each year, had no evidence of meeti...

Kenya's oversight bodies crippled by underfunding, government disregard, report reveals
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 27, 2025

The Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee, in a report tabled in the National Assembly, noted that the Controller of Budget, Auditor Gener...

Report recommends granting punitive powers to Auditor-General and Controller of Budget
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 26, 2025

The report urges lawmakers to amend existing laws to allow the two oversight bodies to not only operate more independently but also enforce their reco...

Public hospital patients may have received untested drugs, Auditor-General reveals
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 25, 2025

In Kenya, the Pharmacy and Poisons Board regulates the distribution of all medical products and is charged with ensuring their safety, quality, and ef...

Sh1.6 billion paid to three unidentified companies prompts probe at Rerec
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 25, 2025

According to the audit, the corporation violated procurement laws by paying for services that had not been planned for and whose execution could not b...

Audit flags deep staff shortfall at Kenya School of Government
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 24, 2025

Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu warned that the shortage is likely to derail the institution’s core functions unless staffing is aligned with its finan...

Kenya Railways losing millions as ticketing flaws let passengers ride free, Auditor General reveals
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 24, 2025

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu said the corporation had not put in place effective measures to ensure full revenue collection on its commuter service...

NTSA dismisses claims of losing control over TIMS amidst audit concerns
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 23, 2025

NTSA responded to media reports citing concerns in the Auditor General’s latest audit that the agency’s staff had restricted access to the Sh186 milli...

Mismanagement of Co-operatives funds amid delayed audits sparks probe
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 23, 2025

Defending the cooperative movement, PS Patrick Kilemi said Kenya has over 7,000 registered financial cooperatives, ranking top in Africa and sixth glo...

Kenya Forest Service under fire over irregular staff sackings, court lapses
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 23, 2025

In the year ending June 2024, the agency spent Sh24 million on legal services, but the Auditor-General found that its legal department lacked clear st...

529 Kenya Railways plots grabbed, Sh27 million lost in yearly rent - Auditor General
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 23, 2025

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu revealed that land in Mombasa, Limuru, Nakuru, and Kisumu had either been grabbed or irregularly allocated, and most of...

Motorists demand full refund of road levies, say fuel price hike illegal
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 22, 2025

Motorists Association of Kenya (MAK) blamed the government for deliberately inflating fuel prices and misusing the road levy under what they termed as...

Governors reject audit of bursary funds in six counties
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 22, 2025

He argued that the process does not align with the constitutional timelines provided under Article 229 and the requirements of the Public Audit Act. A...

NTSA yet to print 572,000 smart licences despite full delivery by supplier
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 22, 2025

This was despite the National Bank of Kenya, which was contracted to supply the cards, having already delivered more than four million.

Sports Kenya faulted for illegal tenders, premature contracts worth Sh1.9 billion
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 21, 2025

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has exposed Sports Kenya for awarding irregular tenders valued at Sh1.96 billion for the refurbishment of Kericho Green...

Audit: TSC yet to recover Sh211 million in teacher overpayments despite recouping Sh222 million
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 21, 2025

In her audit report for the financial year ending June 2024, Gathungu disclosed that TSC had overpaid teachers Sh433.9 million, blaming the situation...

PSC paid retired civil servants Sh25.7 million in irregular contracts, audit reveals
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 20, 2025

Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has exposed that the commission hired the retirees without competitive recruitment and paid them through manual systems...

Sh540 million loss: Auditor General Nancy Gathungu exposes irregularities in book distribution
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 18, 2025

The audit uncovered glaring irregularities in how books were distributed to public schools. Some schools received more textbooks than required, others...

Communications Authority on the spot after audit uncovers asset management failures
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 17, 2025

According to the Auditor General, the Authority overstated the value of its Nairobi headquarters land, failed to adjust title deeds and maintained unc...

EduAfya audit uncovers 'ghost students', Sh2.3 billion overpayment
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 17, 2025

EduAfya programme was launched in 2018 under the National Education Sector Strategic Plan, with the aim of increasing access and equity in secondary e...

Four years on: Auditor General Nancy Gathungu still locked out of NHIF claims system
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 17, 2025

The administrators of NHIF’s outsourced e-claims system refused to grant auditors access to log files, key records that could confirm whether medical...

Sh16.6 million disbursed to 14 ghost schools, Auditor General reveals
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 16, 2025

Okumu told the legislators that a fact-finding mission by the Auditor General’s office had confirmed there was no physical infrastructure at the purpo...

Parliament's delay in enforcing audit reports threatens public funds, Auditor-General Gathungu warns
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 13, 2025

Gathungu is advocating for amendments to the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act to introduce penalties, arguing that such measures would promote fisc...

Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu slams Office of the President for stalled small claims courts in Nairobi
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 12, 2025

Nancy Gathungu pointed out that responsibility for completing the courts in Dagoretti, Kasarani, Mihango and Huruma was handed over to the Judiciary t...

Report reveals State House blew Sh1 billion on local travel in nine months
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 11, 2025

The government recorded a total expenditure of Sh1.2 trillion during the period, representing 70 per cent of the revised gross budget estimates.

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