Auditor General Nancy Gathungu Stories
Key initiatives in energy, transport, and health were among those flagged for weak documentation, raising concerns about potential mismanagement and e...
Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) Corridor Development Authority occupies large areas, including residential apartments, office space...
Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has warned that the delays in collections now risk forcing counties to divert resources from other departments to susta...
Auditor General Nancy Gathungu revealed that the continued operations of many of these universities were being sustained only through government suppo...
Gathungu said the universities did not have legal evidence to confirm ownership of the assets reflected in their financial statements.
According to the audit, the State Department for Correctional Services signed a tenancy agreement with a private service provider to lease a house for...
The money, generated from patient fees, pharmacy sales, laboratory services, outpatient visits, and inpatient care, was supposed to be deposited into...
Beyond imprests, the Auditor General noted several governance gaps that affect the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of county financial stateme...
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...
The audit covering 42 universities found that Sh10.96 billion of the debt is long-term, while Sh68.4 billion represents current liabilities.
The audit revealed that 86 constituencies failed to present records for Sh2.12 billion, including receipts from schools, acknowledgement forms from st...
Committee chairman and Bumula MP Wanami Wamboka accused the audit office of weakening findings, failing to flag major issues, and clearing chief execu...
Combined, the three agencies spent over Sh2.4 billion illegally on staff compensation, amid a government-wide wage bill increase that led to a freeze...
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...
In Mombasa, 16 employees were promoted without undergoing performance appraisals, while in Kisumu, some workers advanced by more than two job groups i...
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...
The counties found to have these gaps include Elgeyo Marakwet, Nakuru, Kakamega, Lamu, Kisii, Taita Taveta, Garissa, Isiolo, Bomet, Embu, Kirinyaga, N...
The audit report highlights widespread irregularities in the allocation of scholarships and bursaries, with some counties unable to provide supporting...
The Sh147 million in nugatory expenditure resulted from PCK’s failure to remit staff pension deductions on time.
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...
Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu said her review revealed cases where payments were made without proper documentation, as well as instances where the sa...
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...
In her findings, Auditor General Nancy Gathungu criticised counties for poor financial discipline, pointing to excessive spending, misallocation of re...
NEMA relies almost entirely on quantity estimates submitted by companies themselves, with only one in-house officer tasked with checking thousands of...
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...
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...
Auditor General Nancy Gathungu, in her report for the year ended June 30, 2024, revealed that the losses resulted from ineffective internal controls a...
The report also exposed systemic flaws in financial management, staffing and oversight, raising concerns over the credibility and transparency of the...
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...
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...
