Kenya. Auditor General’s Report Reveals Ksh.67B Lost Through Fake Pension Scheme Payments
Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has lifted the lid on the Ksh.67 billion loss of public funds through fake payments made to pensioners whose realness is also in question. The performance report by the Auditor General on the fund shows that top civil servants manning the scheme were among others using duplicate IDs to enrol fake claimants, occasioning the loss of taxpayers' money. Officials in the National Treasury are said to have colluded to defraud the pension fund of billions of shillings...