Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner General John Njiraini addresses the
Public Investment Committee at Parliament Buildings, on March 29, 2018.
Mr John Njiraini's second term was supposed to expire on March 4 this
year. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Auditor general Edward Ouko says Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)
Commissioner-General John Njiraini is in office illegally, after he
failed to go on terminal leave last year.
Mr Ouko, in
his audit report as at June 30, 2017, has also raised queries regarding
the taxman’s expenditure of Sh3.7 billion, saying there is no
documentation to show that the funds were used prudently.
The
report says that Mr Njiraini should have gone on terminal leave from
September 4, 2017, pending his retirement in accordance with a
government circular of November 23, 2010.
“This
requirement has not been acted upon to date, and the board did not
recommend that the commissioner-general proceed on terminal leave,” said
the report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday last week by Majority Leader
Aden Duale.
RENEWED NJIRAINI'S CONTRACT
In
2015, the board renewed Mr Njiraini’s contract for a three-year term,
which and was supposed to end on March 4, 2018, but he did not take
terminal leave as required.
An attempt by the board chaired by Dr Edward
Sambili to have him go on leave was overturned by President Uhuru
Kenyatta in May, after he sacked five of its members through a special
gazette notice.
Besides Dr Sambili,
the other board members kicked out were Mr Evans Kakai, Ms Constance
Kandie, Mr Rashid Ali and Mr Abdi Barre Duale.
According
to Mr Ouko, the Sh3.7 billion that cannot be accounted for does not
include Sh1.6 billion of one-stop border post (OSBP) works in various
parts of the country that were completed and included in the final land
and building revaluation report. “The work in progress of Sh3.7 billion
cannot be confirmed,” the report says.
VERIFICATION PAYMENT VOUCHERS
KRA
is also on the spot for failing to present for verification payment
vouchers to support the expenditure of Sh777.2 million used on various
projects.
In addition, the authority
omitted Sh45.9 million from its financial income statement in standards
levy, concession fees, insurance deduction commission and merchant
superintendent shipping levy (MSSL).
It declared only Sh1.8 billion to the auditors.
The
omitted income came from the Kenya Bureau of Standards the Kenya
Airports Authority, various insurance companies and the Kenya Maritime
Authority.
KRA also failed to
disclose Sh82.1 million in assets received as donations from development
partners during the year under review, including three scanners from
the Chinese government in 2015, and five vehicles from the Japan
International Corporation Agency.
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