Members of the Kisumu County Assembly have raised concern over the lack of documentation and financial reports on how funds were used, alleging that there was lack of accountability.
Led by Deputy Speaker, Pamela Owino, the MCAs now want a full report on how the money allocated to the county's development agenda in the last financial year and in the first half of this year’s financial year has been used.
At a press briefing on Tuesday evening, eight MCAs in a signed statement read by the East Seme representative, Aggrey Ogosi threatened not to approve the County’s supplementary budget, unless a full financial report of the development vote is tabled in the Assembly for scrutiny.
The county representatives revealed that the government had as at December 31 last year received Sh750 million from the National Government for development, and collected over Sh250 million in revenue over the same period.
“So far we are aware the County Government received about Sh750 million from the National government for development, and if you add this to what has been generated locally for the same, we are talking about Sh1 billion,” said Ogosi.
The County government spent Sh213 million shillings on 43 vehicles, but six months down the line, they have not been used for lack of drivers.
“We are imploring the governor to make haste and put these machines to use following news that most of the vehicles have been vandalized and batteries stolen,” he said.
He said that the county is not a show room, demanding that the government move in haste into putting the vehicles for service delivery for the residents of Kisumu.
Ogosi alleged that the vandalism of the county vehicles is an inside job by the county executives.
Last week, a suspect was detained after he was caught by the administration police trying to vandalize the car batteries at the county.