Ten senior Kilifi officials approved payments to private companies linked to the county's Sh51 million scandal, a court heard on Wednesday. Kai told Kilifi senior principal magistrate Robinson Ondiek he emailed Central Bank asking to cancel the transactions. "An irregular payment of Sh6.7 million to a Nairobi-based company was detected by senior accountant John Kalume while paying casual workers." But he said the system was not hacked and that some of the senior county officials must have used their passwords. Also read: Mungatana at EACC over Sh51 million Kilifi county scamMore on this: Kilifi county denies loss of Sh1.18 billion

Source: The Star September 13, 2017 11:48 UTC