By Betty Luke
At least 30 Meru MCAs and some county assembly staff have until the end of July to return Sh5 million that they fraudulently received in form of imprest to facilitate them to attend a County Assemblies Legislative meeting in 2016 that they did not attend.
According to documents seen by The Press Point, each of the MCAs and the county assembly officials received Sh105, 000 on May 19, 2016 as per diem and transport allowance for the summit that was to take place between May 22 and May 27 that year.
Investigations conducted by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission revealed that the ward representatives and the other officers did not attend the meeting nor did they surrender the monies they had received.
The MCAs were on June 30 served with a demand letter requiring them to deposit the money into the EACC’s revenue account.
EACC Upper Eastern boss Mr George Ojowi warned that the agency will take legal action if the MCAs and the County Assembly officials fail to hand over the money within the required period.
“We have given them a notice of 30 days to return the money issued to them for failure to which we shall take action including filing a recovery suit in court,” Mr Ojowi told The Press Point.
