State House official approved Sh400m payments to Afya House contractors

Mr Joseph Kinyua, State House Chief of Staff. PHOTO | FILE 

By DAVID HERBLING, hdavid@ke,nationmedia.com

In Summary

• Joseph Kinyua directed the Ministry of Health to wire Sh200 million to pay for consultancy ...and inception works at Nanyuki County Hospital, according to the updated internal audit report dated November 18, 2016.
• The auditor raises the red flag on payments drawn from the Health ministry’s supplementary budget in the period to June 2016.
• The Constitution provides that only the Controller of Budget can authorise payments drawn from taxpayers’ cash.
• Only Parliament has the constitutional mandate to re-allocate national budget votes