68 more vehicles found
By Brian Malasi
The discovered vehicles now bring the number of vehicles in Kitui County to 320.
The additions were made by The Kitui County Government Motor Vehicles, Plant, Equipment Determination, Assessment & Evaluation Committee appointed by Governor Dr Julius Malombe.
This revelation was part of the contents of a report handed over to Governor Malombe in his Kitui office, Friday.
The committee intended to establish the state of equipment, motor vehicles and plant equipment owned by the devolved unit.
In the report, discovery was made of cases of vehicles with repeated entry in the records and one vehicle with tripple entries in the assumption of Office of the Governor committee report authored last year.
Further, the report features cases of motor vehicle vandalism,abandonment, mechanical breakdown of motor vehicles, misuse of fuel, pending processed insurance claims, unregistered mobile clinics, theft of hospital equipment and exaggerated cost of procured machines among others.
Part of the findings by the committee unearthed that in two separate incidences within the county, the county ministry of health lost 2 ultrasound sound machines valued at Kes. 750,000 and Kes. 2.5M from both Ikutha and Kyuso Level 4 Hospitals respectively. Both cases were recorded under OB No. 14/03/10/2022 at Ikutha Police station and OB No 13/17/09/2020 at Kyuso Police station.
The Anchor has since established that the cases are currently in court.
In it's recommendations, the committee recommended streamlining the reporting structure in the department of transport, repairing of grounded and serviceable vehicles, while payment to be effected for bonded vehicles at the dealers and the immediate follow up of the vehicle insurance claims among others.
In his remarks, Governor Malombe said his government will institute the necessary changes to ensure a properly functioning transport department and at the same time institute legal proceedings on those found culpable for any wrong doing.
