By MN Reporter

New corruption allegations involving Migori County Government has emerged only weeks after governor Okoth Obado was accused of misappropriating Sh600million by Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission.

The county treasury has been accused of fraudulently inflating Sh146million for MCAs sitting allowances which do not tally with figures offered by the Controller of Budget.

The corruption has threatened to stall operation at the assembly which is badly hit with a cash crunch.

Migori speaker Gordon Ogolla, Majority Leader Richard Solo (North Kamagambo), Minority Leader Charles Nyangi (Isebania) and several MCAs have told Migori News they want speedy investigations by EACC on the County Treasury over the corruption claims.

They said the amount does not reflect on assembly budget and has painted MCAs negatively after a report showed they are among highest paid in allowances across the country.

Migori assembly only spent a total of Sh142 million in allowances which is different from figures offered by Controller of Budget, MCAs said.

“The assembly budget on allowances only reflects Sh142 million and not Sh288 million that are being alleged by the Budget Controller. What we need is a probe on the conduct of our county treasury to ascertain the source of the huge sum of purported allowances,” said Ogolla.

Solo and Nyangi said the county treasury and executive arm colluded to manipulate and inflate budget figures from assembly to make huge illegal claims.

“We never see the extra requisition as executive and the county treasury have been submitting expenditure figures which are doubled and inflated,” Solo said.

Nyangi insisted: “We have a feeling that the Assembly budget is being tampered with by the executive to acquire illegal monies.”