Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - An outspoken Azimio One Kenya Alliance Senator has asked the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to probe how Machakos County has been distributing bursary funds.
Speaking on Tuesday, Vihiga
Senator Godfrey Osotsi, who is the chairman of County
Public Investments and Special Funds Committee, revealed how Machakos County paid altered bursary cheques
to needy students in the financial year 2020-21.
The auditor general in her
report had flagged off the anomaly pointing out a possible collusion between
the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) officials Machakos Branch and the County
officials.
It emerged that some cheques
were altered with the suspects adding a zero at the end of the cheques, thereby
increasing the amount of money channelled to the needy students.
“This matter is a clear case of fraud. The amounts stolen in this scheme could be higher.
"We direct the EACC to
swing into action and fish out the perpetrators of the fraud,” said Osotsi.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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