Siaya County Governor James Orengo has sent County Secretary Joseph Ogutu and all county Chief Officers on mandatory leave.
Governor Orengo intends to give the taskforce responsible for conducting a forensic audit of the county’s financial operations enough time to complete its work.
Moreover, Orengo has made changes to the County’s Finance department, naming Mr. Richard Mungla as the new CEC for Finance.
The Siaya governor asked the county residents to provide the taskforce with the resources it needs to perform its duty effectively.
Furthermore, he urged the EACC and the DCI, which are currently investigating gross financial irregularities in the county, to speed up their investigations so that appropriate action can be taken against those implicated in corruption.
He further warned that those implicated will not go scot-free.
The seven-member taskforce was formed to carry out a forensic audit of the financial operations of the county government’s previous administration.
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This came after senior staff in the former governor Cornel Rasanga’s administration allegedly withdrew money amounting to around Ksh.400 million in less than two weeks before the August 9, polls.
Nonetheless, the taskforce chaired by former Auditor General Edward Ouko has the responsibility of evaluating, assessing, and determining the county’s human resource establishment and revenue administration with emphasis on the fiscal years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022.
