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IEBC Used Ksh 700 Million for Food in its County Offices in Last Elections

BY Soko Directory Team · May 8, 2019 05:05 am

As other parts of the country continue to suffer under the pangs of hunger and as Kenya struggles to fight the mega corruption scandals hitting her, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has set a new record.

Report by the Auditor General has indicated that IEBC used nearly 700 million shillings for food and drinks in the financial year to June 2018.

According to the report, the electoral body used a whopping 2.3 billion shillings on hotels, foods, and drinks with 691,526,310 shillings going for catering services.

The Auditor General says “in the circumstances, the validity of the expenditure of 691,526,310 shillings incurred on catering services by the county offices could not be ascertained.”

After the last general election, IEBC has been on the spot over the misappropriation of billions of taxpayers’ cash on expenses that did not have an immediate value either to the commission or the taxpayer.

It has also emerged that IEBC paid 70.5 million shillings to Bomas of Kenya as ‘rent’ for their hall for the transmission of the presidential election results.

The Auditor General, in his report, said that “examination of records revealed that the commission paid Bomas of Kenya the amount of 70,495,162 shillings vide voucher 1196A dated April 2018.”

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The IEBC also hired security systems, accommodation for commissioners as well as projectors that led to an overpayment of 27.4 million shillings, more than what had been negotiated. The commission is yet to recover the overpayment.

IEBC also paid 36.2 million shillings to an event organizing firm by the name Wanderjoy Party World Limited, the amount that the Auditor General says was “unsupported expenditure.”

Stats show that Kenya loses at least one trillion shillings annually to corruption with at least 6.6 trillion shillings having been looted since the Jubilee government came to power.

Meanwhile, as they loot, prepare to pay rent for “waheshimiwas” after they awarded themselves 250,000 shillings per month.

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