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Auditor General accused of overlooking fuel fraud

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Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu takes notes after holding a consultative meeting with the Nyeri County Assembly Public Accounts Committee, on March 1, 2023. [Mose Sammy, Standard]

A petitioner has claimed that the office of the Auditor General failed to report fraud involving former President Uhuru Kenyatta's fuel subsidy programme.

Fraud examiner Bernard Muchere argues that a special audit by Nancy Gathungu team "avoided addressing the real issues on the oil price stabilisation contained in the Recurrent Supplementary Expenditure Estimates I&II of the financial years 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 in the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining."

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