{"id":17247,"date":"2025-03-05T14:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17247"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:42:30","slug":"auditor-general-report-exposes-financial-irregularities-in-meru-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17247","title":{"rendered":"Auditor General Report Exposes Financial Irregularities in Meru County."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-3-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17248\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Meru<\/strong> \u2013 A report by <strong>Auditor General Nancy Gathungu<\/strong> has revealed <strong>questionable expenditures<\/strong> under <strong>embattled Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza<\/strong>, including <strong>Ksh.2.5 million spent on internet installation<\/strong> at the <strong>county headquarters and revenue board offices<\/strong>, despite <strong>similar services having been budgeted for and installed in the previous financial year (2023\/24)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report further exposes <strong>Mwangaza\u2019s administration for failing to pay contractors<\/strong> a total of <strong>Ksh.284 million<\/strong>, causing <strong>pending bills to surge by 27%<\/strong> compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, <strong>Ksh.36 million<\/strong> was allocated to <strong>two major projects that have yet to commence<\/strong>, raising concerns about <strong>mismanagement and stalled development initiatives<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings add to <strong>Mwangaza\u2019s woes<\/strong>, as scrutiny over <strong>financial accountability<\/strong> in <strong>Meru County<\/strong> continues to intensify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meru \u2013 A report by Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has revealed questionable expenditures under embattled Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza, including Ksh.2.5 million spent on internet installation at the county headquarters and revenue board offices, despite similar services having been budgeted for and installed in the previous financial year (2023\/24). The report further exposes Mwangaza\u2019s administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-3-6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17249,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions\/17249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}