Vihiga Governor Wilber Ottichilo. [Photo/weeklyagenda.co.ke]
A section of Vihiga County leaders have reinstated their total support for Governor Wilber Ottichilo’s plans to clean-up sleaze in Vihiga County.
The leaders, in a meeting held in Nairobi, expressed solidarity with the governor’s plan to create a corruption-free county.
The leaders criticised the leadership of former Governor Moses Akaranga.
“There has actually been no government in Vihiga. What existed is an assembly of unqualified people whose main business was to share County funds. The coffers are empty as if money was just catered away,” the meeting was told, as reported by West FM.
The leaders alleged that all County Executive Committee Members (became accounting officers and allocated themselves money to spend as they wished.
The result is there is little documentation on the alleged sh2billion pending debt owed to over 90% briefcase contractors owned by the same county officials.
The Governor sought support from the MPs for an impending personnel purge and forensic audit of the county finances.
The meeting was convened by ANC Party leader and NASA Co-Principal Musalia Mudavadi.
The former County assembly was used to sanitise budgets that were never implemented in return for contract favours to MCAs.
“The previous County Assembly abdicated its oversight role and became an implementer of corrupt deals. They were literary bought off to look the other way as officers skimmed public resources,” the meeting heard.