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Senate asks new Auditor-General to probe use of Covid-19 billions

Newly appointed Auditor General Nancy Gathungu flanked by Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Anne Amadi. File | Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • The Senate Ad Hoc committee on Covid-19 made the request amid claims that billions allocated to deal with the pandemic may have been diverted.

A Parliamentary committee has now requested Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu to undertake a special audit into the expenditure of billions of shillings allocated to the national and county governments for the Covid-19 pandemic interventions. 

The Senate Ad Hoc committee on Covid-19 made the request amid claims that funds allocated to deal with the pandemic may have been diverted to other uses not related to the disease, misapplied or misappropriated.