From left: President Uhuru Kenyatta, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry
Rotich and Deputy President William Ruto during the launch of the
government e-procurement system at the Kenyatta International Convention
Centre in Nairobi on August 13, 2014. FILE PHOTO | EVANS HABIL |
NATION MEDIA GROUP
The Auditor General is inspecting the
government online procurement system to stop fraudulent transactions
that have dealt a blow to Jubilee government.
The
government is nearing conclusion in the audit of the Integrated
Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) with a view of exploring
ways of improving the system to track online crime.
The
Principal Secretary National Treasury Dr Kamau Thugge said the Auditor
General has earmarked several areas for improvement to ease use of the
system and make fraudulent transactions to be near impossible.
“We
are also looking at risk management on the system, possibly having
triggers in place so that fraud can be detected before any funds are
lost,” Mr Thugge while at a meeting with the Public Accounts Committee
of the National Assembly in IFMIS offices.
Cybercrime
The
audit comes at a time when the 2015 Cyber Security Report stated that
Kenya last year lost Sh15 billion through cyber-crime with the public
sector being the most affected.
Former
devolution and planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru mid last year
said that there had been an attempt to siphon Sh800 million from the NYS
using the stolen Integrated Financial Management Information System
(Ifmis) passwords.
The
latest Transparency International (TI) report released January ranks
Kenya among the most corrupt countries in the world, at position 139 out
of 168 countries. Majority of the corrupt deals are as a result of
weaknesses in public procurement systems.
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