Nandi Governor Stephen Sang’ is accused of floating budget for diary milk processing plant where initial budget was USD1million to USD 500
His Senator Samson Cherargey urges LSK to discipline him over the loss of funds for lawyers shouldn’t breach laws
Senate watchdog committee has demanded an explanation from Nandi Governor Stephen Sang’ over the unaccounted Sh 2.9 billion shillings for the year ended June 2022
Appearing before the Senate County Public Accounts Committee, Sang’ failed to answer satisfactorily the Auditor General queries where Sh 2.9 billion is reported to have been lost
According to Nandi Senator Samson Cherargey, Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission should take up the matter to investigate the county executive officials led by the Governor Sang’
“Since Governor Stephen Sang’ is a lawyer and all these anomalies happened under his full glare watching, it’s the time we recommend that the Law Society of Kenya discipline him because whatever his juniors did should have averted the impropriety of public funds and followed Public Finance Management Act 2012 to the letter,” Cherargey observed during the committee session held at KICC
Cherargey also pointed out that the own source revenue accounts for the Nandi county has lost substantial amounts, according to the report by the AG, where investigating agencies should also probe thoroughly
In the Nancy Gachangu’s report covering 2021/2022 financial year, Governor Sang’ also failed to answer the questions over the floated budget for the dairy milk processing plant from USD 1 million to USD 5 million where the committee chair Moses Kajwang gave him 14 days to submit the responses
The senators also recommended the certified public accountants of kenya [CPAK] to bar three officers led by Nicholas Biwot and CPA Abraham Langat for preparing unprofessional bank balance sheets
In the sheets, there’s a variance of Sh 295 million which remains unanswered for the year ended June 2021
Nandi County Executive Bank balances reflected Sh 685 million whereas Integrated Financial Management Information Systems [IFMIS] showed a different figure of Sh 447 million where the cash at hand also reflected Sh 367 million, which raises eyebrows
However, Governor defended himself saying the actual balance was 668 million shillings as reflected by the bank balance sheets
The issue of overborrowing was also canvassed where Narok Senator Ledama Ole Kina issued warning over the county executive to avoid leaving pending bills amounting to billions of shillings
Ole Kina was on the view that Senate should recommend to the controller of budget as well as Treasury to retain some funds in the next financial allocations to clear the pending bills