This archive report was first published on 22 July 2019.
On July 22, 2019, Auditor-General Edward Ouko tabled a report in Parliament detailing numerous anomalies in the payment of cash meant for people displaced by the 2007 General Election violence.
The report showed that the government paid Sh2.7 billion to non-existent IDPs, people with duplicate names, and others without identity cards.
According to the report, an estimated 1,220 Kenyans were killed and more than 660,000 displaced when violence flared up between supporters of former president Mwai Kibaki and former prime minister Raila Odinga after the December 2007 presidential election.
"Examination of sampled list of IDPs national identity cards (IDs) numbers revealed that payments were made to IDPs whose national identity card numbers provided did not exist in the database of the National Registration Bureau," Mr Ouko said in his report.
He also accused the National Humanitarian Fund of making payments worth millions of shillings to IDPs with duplicate names and those without national identity cards in Turkana County.
Mr Ouko said the validity and propriety of the payments could not be confirmed due to the lack of crucial documents for audit review.
