Senate in session during the election of the Senate Deputy Speaker of the senate at the Senate chambers in Nairobi on June 2 ,2020 [Elvis Ogina, Standard]
Senate has given governors a week’s notice to furnish it with supporting document on utilisation of the Sh7.7 billion Covid-19 funds.
The Senate Health Committee probing the expenditure of the funds, also grilled governors Mwangi wa Iria (Muranga) and James Nyoro (Kiambu) after the Auditor General Nancy Gathungu raised the red flag in a special audit report.
Murang’a County is on the spot over expenditure of Sh213.4 million after the AG raised 10 audit queries. Of the amount, Sh112 million was an allocation from the national government as a conditional grant.