More rot has been exposed in the current regime after the Auditor General Nancy Gathungu reported the fake Pension scheme payments made to non existent people ammounting to Ksh. 67 Billion
According to the Auditor reports, top civil servants manning the scheme were among others using duplicate IDs to enrol fake claimants, occasioning the loss of taxpayers’ money through the scheme.
Further, officials in the National Treasury are said to have colluded to defraud the pension fund of billions of shillings through the enrolment of non-existent persons or double payments to duplicate bank accounts.
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Figures indicate that 260,242 fake claimants with questionable identities benefitted from the loot of Ksh.67.9 billion, money that was illegally allocated to persons that don’t exist at the expense of kenyans.
Shockingly, 273 persons were paid a total of Ksh.26.9 million from the pension scheme yet the beneficiaries were registered after the payments were made.
In addition, 962 persons were paid Ksh.1.6 billion even before they exited their jobs, meaning they have been enjoying their pension before their retirement from public service.
The report that covered the period of pension payments from 2013 to 2020 shows Ksh.44 billion was paid by the Treasury to faceless individuals without Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) PIN certificates. Another sum of Ksh.152.8 million was paid to claimants who shared identification cards.
Other individuals were paid a sum of Ksh.152.8 million and according to records, they shared identification cards while 214 other persons were paid Ksh.492 million as pension but upon scrutiny, the individuals were never under the pension scheme.
The Auditor General notes that majority of ministries found with the irregular fake Pension scheme payments include: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Treasury, Health, the Department Of Prisons, Transport, Water, Investment and Industry, Social Protection, Judiciary and the Teachers’ Service Commission.