Corruption Scandal Involving Popular Azimio Governor Exposed

A mega multi million corruption scandal scandal has been unearthed in an Azimio la Umoja one Kenya alliance stronghold county.

The scandal that involves hiring a total of one thousand seven hundred and eighty six ghost workers has been exposed in Homa bay county in Nyanza region.

This report indicates that the county government has lost close to shillings three hundred millions in paying these ghosts workers.

It is shocking to find that most of these ghost workers are minors who are even below sixteen years old.

The scandal was exposed by the price water House coopers who carried a payroll and personal census audit that was done to the staff of the county.

Homa bay county governor hon Gladys Wanga with hon Raila Amollo Odinga.

It was also established that over three hundred and twenty two people lack the necessary qualifications to hold the offices they are hold in the county.

A good number of workers have no file in the county registry, a clear indication that they did not present any document during recruitment.

Some of them are accused of faking the Kenya national examination council certificates while others do not have the practicing licence of the professional bodies in which they belong.

This report was handed over to the Homa bay county governor hon Gladys Wanga who said that the ghost workers will be removed from the payroll with immediate effect and those without proper documentation fired.

“The way forward is that we are going to implement this report and this will enable us to save public funds of over Sh300m. Our objective is to offer good services to the people,” Wanga said.

This was exposed just a day after the former governor of Kakamega county hon Wycliffe Oparanya was arrested by the officers from the ethics and anti corruption officers over corruption allegations.

Oparanya is accused of embezzling public funds amounting to 1.3 billion shillings during his tenure as the governor of Kakamega county for a period of ten years.