Health ministry fails to account for Sh2.7bn spending

The Ministry of Health failed to account for Sh2.7 billion it spent on the controversial purchase of portable container clinics, free maternity, family planning and managed equipment service in the 2015/16 financial year, Auditor-General Edward Ouko has said in a report to parliament.

Mr Ouko says a special audit of the ministry found that “funds amounting to Sh2,679,088,560 had procedural infractions and could not be accounted for.”

Parliament ordered the audit in the wake of an exclusive story that the Business Daily published in October 2016 showing that Afya House had failed to account for up to Sh5 billion spent in the previous financial year.

A leaked internal audit report…