Embu Governor Martin Wambora was on Thursday at pains to explain why his administration missed the own-source revenue target by Sh455 million in 2017-18. In his report, former auditor general Edward Ouko fingered the Embu county executive for collecting Sh532 million against the target of Sh892 million resulting to a revenue shortfall of Sh455 million for the year under review. “The auditors are raising the issue that your own-source revenue collection went down, yet you have annual budget which had costed functions assigned resources. He said over Sh900 million proposed as possible revenue collection is not achievable, saying in the last financial year Embu county raised almost the same figure with Kakamega. “But we don’t benefit from the one per cent fiscal effort in the annual collection because our revenue figures have been exaggerated,” Wambura said.

Source: The Star September 18, 2020 02:03 UTC