It has emerged that the Defence ministry blocked the Auditor-General from auditing suspicious tender awards in the docket.
MPs have been irked by the findings as officers remain coy over the matter.
House Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had directed the Auditor-General to examine the award of tenders in the Department of Defence (DoD) but it has emerged that the process was not conducted after some of the officials interfered with the whole process.
The officers who were sent to work at the DOD were not allowed to access the books, which made it impossible for them to deliver any findings for recommendations.
The watchdog committee under the chairmanship of Opiyo Wandayi has now directed Principal Secretary Ibrahim Mohammed to avail all the documents from the relevant officers for scrutiny without failure for record purposes.
Wandayi said that it is saddening for officials to block such a process from being conducted at the expense of accountability.
“You cannot just sit there and decide that you will go against the orders of Parliament. The orders that we gave for special audit must be complied with... It is my ruling that DoD will allow the auditors to access any documents they want,” directed Wandayi, as quoted by Standard.
Earlier, DOD claimed that the Auditor-General wanted to go through documents that had already been audited.
Jack Wright (1982), which had applied to supply meat claimed that the ministry gave tenders to the highest bidder after it emerged that Nairobi-based firm supplied one kilo of meat at Sh38 more compared to the normal prices.