How ECK bosses misused election cash

• Auditors say polls body mismanaged enough money to fund 193 dispensaries

Tax-free pay

The 21 ECK commissioners were among the best paid civil servants in Kenya, each earning about Sh400,000 in salary and allowances, while Mr Kivuitu earned Sh513,000 in salary and allowances. The pay was tax-free.

The commissioners were entitled to a security officer, a driver, a cook and a house allowance of up to Sh50,000. In February, the Cabinet approved a Sh68,701,260 sendoff package for former commissioners.

As Kenya gears up for electoral reforms, Africog advises that voter registration be linked to other population databases such as that used for issuing national identity cards.

“Measures must be taken to ensure that members of the Parliamentary (sic) Accounts Committee and Public Investments Committee are beyond reproach by amending standing orders to bar anyone with an unresolved public audit query from sitting on the committees,” reads the report.