42 Revenue Officers Suspended In Uasin Gishu Over Loss of Cash During Elections Period 

Uasin Gishu county has suspended 42 revenue officers over loss of money during the election period.

Chief officer for finance at the county Peter Chesos confirmed that the officers have been sent home to facilitate investigations into the theft of money mostly from the parking department.

Chesos said the workers had been given letters to show cause why they should not be disciplined over the the financial malpractices", said Chesos.

He said the revenue officers are suspected to have given fake banking slips indicating they had deposited money collected but the cash was actually never taken to the banks.

The theft is suspected to have taken place between the month of July, August, September and October.

"We suspect they took advantage of the elections period to engage in diversion of revenue", said Chesos

He said so far they had established that more than sh 4 million was missing but investigations were going on to establish the full extend of the loss.

-Mathews Ndanyi