Senate cautions governors on bias claims

Senators in the Public Accounts Committee have said claims made by some governors that they get mistreated and humiliated when they appear before the committee is a gimmick to hoodwink the public and escape hard questions about mismanagement of public funds. 

Governors have claimed that senators were using the committee as a political tool against them, but the senators insist they only perform their Constitutional duties to ensure transparency and accountability on public spending.

Kiambu Senator Kimani Wamatangi, who is a member of the PAC, said the claims were untrue. He said governors have regarded the hard questions they are asked as harassment because they are never prepared to respond.

The senator said serious accountability issues have been raised against several counties by the auditor-general and the county bosses must be prepared to respond.

“If this is what they call humiliation, they should brace for tough times ahead because we will continue asking them,” Mr Wamatangi told Saturday Nation.

He said governors should not capitalise on the tiff between Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero and Senator Mike Sonko.