Tourism and Wildlife CS Alfred Mutua is in trouble over pending bills and stalled projects from his tenure as Machakos governor.
According to the auditor general Nancy Gathungu, Machakos lost billions of shillings during the 10 year period because of mismanagement of funds.
The revelations came to the limelight following a sitting by the senate’s public Accounts Committee that is headed by Homabay senator Moses Kajwang. The committee is assessing the county government’s financial report for the year that ended in June 2022 and senators are now calling upon EACC to investigate the matter.
The Kajwang’ led committee revealed that Mutua’s administration left behind pending bills amounting to Kshs3.1 billion, stalled projects worth over kshs1.18billion and legal fees of Kshs1.14 billion, amount being owed to lawyers in over 400 civil court cases.
“The legal fees issue is an outright theft through collusion by people to get money from the county government through the back door. The list of pending legal fees has the same five law firms and there is some ghost claims,” Kajwang said.
Awarding tenders of kshs399.9 million and Kshs394.1 million for the construction of a 12-storey and 11 storey building respectively in 2018 have also put Mutua on the spot. The mentioned building were to be completed in 58 weeks but a cite visit conducted on October 2022 established that the second one was half way and the first was only at 10% completion.
Other stalled projects are stadiums that were allocated Kshs147.7 million, Mumbuni dam project (Kshs75.1 million), public toilet in Matuu(Kshs2.87 million) among others.
