The Council of Governors (CoG) has accused the National Government of sabotaging county projects to undermine governors’ leadership and ensure they are rejected in 2017 polls.
Peter Munya, the CoG chairman, said governors are being denied access to additional funds in a scheme perpetrated through technology, a move aimed at denting their political careers.
According to Munya, the scheme was being perpetrated at the Treasury using the Integrated Management Information System (IFMIS), which, he alleged, counties were allowed to access for only 15 minutes in a day.
Speaking at a press briefing in Nairobi on Monday, the Meru governor said this is hardly enough time for governors to make transactions.
Munya cited the failure of Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich to convene a meeting of a technical committee, agreed on by the Summit, to look into some of the financial concerns of counties, “two weeks after the decision was made’ as part of this grand scheme.
He called for an audit of the IFMIS by the Auditor-General, to establish whether it was prudent to continue using the online system or abandon it.
Munya said governors will discuss this at a meeting between the governors and Deputy President William Ruto at the Inter-governmental Budget and Economic meeting in Karen, Nairobi on Wednesday.