{"id":5779,"date":"2019-10-07T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"drought-agency-faces-audit-query-over-sh5bn-famine-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/07\/drought-agency-faces-audit-query-over-sh5bn-famine-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought Agency Faces Audit Query Over Sh5bn Famine Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Edwin Mutai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Drought Management Agency (NDMA) failed to\naccount for Sh5 billion that the Government and donors provided for\nfamine-stricken families under the Hunger Safety Net Programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Audit Office puts the NDMA management on the\nspot for failing to provide documentation to support the basis on which various\nbeneficiaries were identified. Besides, it said the NDMA management failed to\nsupport or provided basis for the rates used for paying the beneficiaries. \u201cThe\nHunger Safety Net Programme, Government of Kenya and donor programme\nexpenditure of Sh5,049,328,332 that comprised payment to various beneficiaries\ndid not have documentation to show how the various beneficiaries were\nidentified and the basis of the rates used for paying them was not supported\neither,\u201d states the report tabled in Parliament last week<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The auditor could not ascertain the propriety and validity\nof the payments of Sh5 billion to beneficiaries together with the accuracy and\ncompleteness of the cash balance as at June 30, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report, signed by former Auditor- General Edward Ouko,\nsaid during the year under review, the National Safety Net Programme made\ntransfers to Equity Bank for transmission to beneficiaries. He said the\nmanagement did not, however, provide bank statements relating to the\ntransactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/economy\/audit-query-over-Sh5bn-famine-aid\/3946234-5301366-7869nh\/index.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Edwin Mutai The National Drought Management Agency (NDMA) failed to account for Sh5 billion that the Government and donors provided for famine-stricken families under the Hunger Safety Net Programme.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}