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Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei yesterday renewed his war of words with Governor Stephen Sang over the use of funds and management of the affairs in the county.

Cherargei has this time written to the Governor demanding ‘the provision of the county state of finance and other development issues for Financial Years 2017/2018 and 2021/2022’.

In his letter, Cherargei had requested the governor’s office to facilitate him have access to all the financial transactions and expenditure during the period, a fact which has not gone down well with Sang

“I appreciate your attempt at exercising your oversight role, an endeavour that calls for utmost good faith. Your letter essentially is asking us to facilitate you to undertake a mandate that has constitutionally been assigned to the Office of the Auditor General (OAG),” Sang said in his response to Cherargei.

“The OAG, being an independent constitutional office, has been adequately resourced (with both human resource and finances) to carry out its mandate by our parliament where you are an honourable second term member,” Sang added in his hard-hitting response to his political nemesis Cherargei.

The Governor who is serving his second term said the OAG carried out the function in the county for the period under reference and the reports ‘are not just public documents but also readily available to the senate, its committees and to individual senators, Cherargei included’.

Senator Cherargei who has been embroiled in a battle supremacy with Governor Sang over the management of affairs in the county yesterday maintained that the devolved unit cannot account for millions of shillings allocated by the County Assembly and the national government.