The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has named Nairobi, Kilifi, Kajiado, and Narok among the county governments with serious accountability deficits in their revenue management systems.
In a statement on Thursday October 26, EACC said that integrated revenue systems in counties are being manipulated to divert public funds to individuals.
“Whereas deployment of integrated revenue management systems in our counties is aimed at enhancing efficiency and accountability, the systems are increasingly being manipulated to divert public funds to private individuals through collusion involving Governors, senior county officials, and companies providing the revenue management service,” the statement read in part.
The commission noted that the systems are designed from the time contracts are awarded to favour entities linked to county officials.
“In this emerging pattern of automated looting of public funds, contracts for revenue management systems are designed with inbuilt corruption ranging from irregular tender awards favouring entities linked to county officials to fraudulent dealings within the automated systems,” EACC added.
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EACC further noted that the revenue systems in some counties are entirely controlled by private entities while in others, officials run parallel revenue systems.
“Reports also point to senior county officials altering revenue data to divert funds to private bank accounts,” said EACC.
This comes days after the commission ordered the Kilifi County Government to stop payment of Sh103 million to a construction company that won a tender for the development of a revenue Collection System.
EACC Regional Manager, upper Coast region, Ben Murei in a letter to Kilifi Governor Gideon Mung'aro said the construction company, Aden Limited, had no requisite capacity and experience to develop the county's revenue system.
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