Auditor General Nancy Gathungu Stories

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...

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...

Taxpayers lose Sh4.8 billion to interest payments on delayed donor projects - report
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 03, 2025

According to the Auditor General's report, the payments, which were avoidable, stemmed from weak contract oversight and poor cash flow management that...

Auditor General’s report prompts probe into Kenya School of Government finances
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 01, 2025

During the session at Bunge Towers on Thursday, Kwanza MP Ferdinand Wanyonyi raised concerns over the treatment of trade debtors, pointing out that no...

MPs blame fund managers for NG-CDF misuse, reject Auditor-General’s claims
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 29, 2025

In her 2023/2024 financial year report, Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu attributed the alleged mismanagement to MPs—an assertion legislators have now d...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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