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A Senate watchdog committee has asked the Auditor General to conduct a special audit on the financial health of the Nairobi City county.

The request came after Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja (pictured) told the Moses Kajwang-led Senate County Public Accounts Committee that he inherited Sh16 billion pending bills accrued by the defunct Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS).

Financial improprieties

The committee directed the Auditor General Nancy Gathungu to conduct a special audit to unearth various financial improprieties in the County’s Own Source Revenue, pending bills and NMS operations running into billions of shillings.

Sakaja said State House Comptroller was the accounting officer for NMS and was best suited to explain how Sh43 billion allocated for running the city after the handing over of essential services to the agency formed by former President Uhuru Kenyatta.

“Let me be very honest with this committee that it would be impossible for me to avail some of the documents sought to answer audit queries since they are in the possession of the State House Comptroller who was the accounting officer of the NMS,” said Sakaja.

Samson Cherargei (Nandi) said it was clear that there was no proper handing over of assets and liabilities from the NMS to Sakaja’s administration adding that the past regime needed to be put to task over the spending of over Sh43 billion allocated to the General Mohammed Badi’s led NMS.