Sakaja now proposes NMS forensic audit
By Alvin.Mwangi, September 4, 2023Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja is now calling for a forensic audit of the defunct Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS).
Speaking yesterday, Sakaja said despite the entity receiving billions of taxpayers money nothing much was done in terms of development.
The governor said the now-defunct body, received over Sh40 billion in the two years they were in charge of the city.
Sakaja noted that despite this, the NMS still had pending bills amounting to over Sh16 billion when he came into office. The governor, insisted that the NMS pending bills should not be a burden to the county, since the NMS was under the office of the President.
“It’s good I talk about the NMS. When they had to come in because nothing was working in the county. There were things they did and others they didn’t do well. They received Sh27 billion from the county and some other money from the national government, but they have Sh16 billion pending bills.
“Where is the work done with over Sh40 billion in two years? I said a forensic audit of their work and their pending bills be dealt with by the Executive. We don’t want a burden that is not ours,” he said.
On February 25, 2020, the Nairobi County through a deed of Transfer of functions unequivocally transferred some services to the National Government through the NMS but did not transfer corresponding liabilities.