Nakuru governor Kinuthia Mbugua is next week scheduled to appear before the Senate’s Public Accounts committee over suspected misappropriation of funds in the county.
Addressing the press in Nakuru town on Thursday evening, nominated Senator Martha Wangare noted that there was a lot to be questioned in the county’s expenditure returns arguing that nothing tangible could be equated to the huge amounts of public funds being misused.
According to Wangare, the county’s accounts committee was using the huge wage bills from former local authorities as a scape goat for the surplus expenses being witnessed within different departments.
“With lack of a proper breakthrough of how salaries are paid to county staff, there is no way he (the governor) will convince us in the committee that the poor funds management is as a result of a huge and unaccounted for wage bill on his side,” she said.
She accused governor Mbugua of not supplying all the necessary facts and figures during the preliminary grilling session something she says shows that there was a serious misuse of funds.
“Having performed dismally in the first phase, let’s await next week before we comment more on the matter,” Wangare noted.
The Nakuru governor is under task to explain before the committee why out of the Sh7 billion received from the national government in the previous financial year, a mere Sh800 million was channelled to development projects.