Nairobi County Government finance department is on the spot after it was established that Sh297 million Bursary Fund was banked in the wrong account in Australia.
Questions have been raised on how and who wired the huge amount of cash to an account registered under Australia’s Maryland University and remained there for more than a month before the ‘error’ was discovered.
“People took the money and deposited it in Maryland’s account for over a month before the money came.”
“So we want to know who sent the money there and for what, and who returned the money on June 4th,” said Minority Whip Peter Imwatok on Tuesday as he moved a motion asking for an explanation for the mix-up.
Imwatok further noted that the account was opened by Maryland University to channel funds for the construction of Dandora Primary School in Nairobi.
“When they were doing the school, they gave a condition that they would open an account with the county and send their donations directly to the account. It is not an exchequer account but was primarily for that project,” he said.
The Sh297 Bursary Fund was supposed to go to each of the 85 wards in the Nairobi each student receiving Sh5,000.
Education committee chairlady Millicent Mugadi admitted that the cash was erroneously sent to the foreign account, but the mishap had since been corrected.
“The bank received the money on Monday and is currently printing 10,000 cheques daily and by the end of this week, all the cheques will be ready,” said Ms Mugadi, the Ziwani MCA.
This was clearly attempted…
This was clearly attempted theft and the culprits should be fired immediately.
NYS pple receive money…
NYS pple receive money freely on their account..sasa iyo ingine money deposited in wrong account.Jameni this is not adding up are you putting relatives in positions they Know nothing about .Ie Finances. audit all patia Vijana wetu kazi ajana na DNA employment