Migori governor office

The Auditor General has unearthed a mega scandal in Migori county’s payroll in which an excess of Sh355 million was spent as salaries for ‘ghost workers’.

The county had budgeted to spend Sh1,440,000,000 but an examination of financial statements revealed itpaid Sh1,760,328,343 as salaries for the 2014/15 financial year.

The expenditure was Sh453,287,442 more than what the county spent on the same in the 2013/14 financial year.

“No justification has been provided for the Sh355,528,023 excess vote on budgeted salaries thus overspending by 25 per cent,” says the report.

Governor Okoth Obado’s administration could not explain to the auditors a negative balance of Sh123,545,366 in the development and recurrent expenditures vote books.

“It is not clear how funds not available could be spent leading to negative balances,” the report notes.