The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has been put on the spot by the Auditor General Edward Ouko's latest audit report.
The electoral body failed to account for Sh5.4 billion in the 2015/2016 financial year. The body paid lawyers Sh2.1 billion instead of Sh1 billion in the 2013 election petitions according to Ouko.
The commission paid 68 lawyers that it hired for the presidential and other election petitions Sh2.2 billion as part of the Commission's pending bills since June 30, 2013.
Additional Sh17.8 million was paid to five law firms that were not qualified to represent IEBC in the courts.
In the report, IEBC paid Sh93.3 million as the cost for biometric voter registration (BVR) kits’ vendor support and maintenance instead of Sh31.7 million.
The report further reveals that the electoral agency irregularly changed the specifications to a whooping Sh1.6 billion for the supply, delivery, installation, training, testing and commissioning of 30,000 Electronic Voter Identification Devices (EVIDs) in the 2013 general elections.
On Wednesday, the National Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chaired by Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi summoned the Commission to appear before it and explain why it used extra taxpayers' money instead of the exact amount of money they had budgeted for.
IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati and CEO Ezra Chiloba are expected to appear before the watchdog committee for four days to answer to the raised audit queries.