The Senate Committee on County Public Accounts and Investment is considering invoking Article 225 of the Constitution to deny Nairobi City County funds.
The Senate committee, which was better prepared on Monday than last week, told the Governor Mike Sonko that the audit queries from the Auditor General have shown that the county is insolvent.
Vice Chair Moses Kajwang’ told Governor Sonko that the City County of Nairobi has only achieved 41% of its revenue collection over the last two financial years, 2017 to 2018 and 2018 to 2019.
While reading the riot act to Sonko and officials who had accompanied him, the Senators told the Governor that the County is allocating only 6% of revenue to development, which is unsustainable.
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They said the rising pending bills are due to pension payments to staff who are retiring and that all revenues being collected from parking fees are going to paying bank overdrafts and loans owed to various financial institutions.
In his defense, Sonko claimed the County government auditors did not respond correctly to audit queries raised by the Auditor General.
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