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The Treasury recently announced that it has allocated Sh15.6 billion towards digitalising Kenya’s economy.

THE STANDARD By Frankline Sunday | February 28th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Telkom Kenya has handed over the National Fibre Optic Backbone Infrastructure (Nofbi) to the government amid questions over the fate of hundreds of millions in fees collected from the utility in the past five years. This comes on the back of a parliamentary inquiry following concerns raised by the Auditor General that taxpayers’ money could be getting lost in the key infrastructure project. In a report published last month, Auditor General Nancy Gathungu flagged an opaque tendering process that saw Chinese firm Hu...

THE STANDARD By Frankline Sunday | February 18th 2021 at 10:30:00 GMT +0300 Auditor General Nancy Gathungu. [David Njaaga, Standard] Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has flagged more than Sh12 billion in irregular expenditure at the State Department for ICT for the financial year ended June 2019.  In her latest audit report, Gathungu raises the red flag over significant expenses that have not been explained, including billions of shillings in payments to foreign contractors without supporting documents.  “In my opinion, because of the significance of the matters discussed, the financial s...