Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha made millions of cash from the distribution of lockers and desks.

This is according to a report by the Auditor General Nancy Gathungu that has shed light on allowances officials from the ministry of education took home from the distribution of lockers and desks to schools.

The report shows that Magoha and his staff took home Sh. 10, 214, 400 from this exercise, an expenditure which the Auditor General could have been avoided if monitoring had been delegated to County education officers.

“The state department has established offices in all the counties and the staff in these offices could have been used with minimal or no costs. This expenditure was therefore against Section 79(2b) of the Public Finance Management Act, 2012, which states that a public officer … should ensure that resources within the officer’s area of responsibility are used in a way that is lawful and authorised and effective, efficient, economical and transparent,” the report by Ms. Gathungu said.

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A report in the dailies estimated that with the cost of a chair and locker for secondary schools having been set at Sh3,800, institutions would have been provided with 2,688 units if these trip funds had been used more prudently.

Each desk for primary schools was to cost Sh2,500, meaning 4,085 units would have been supplied. In total, the ministry supplied 622,357 lockers and chairs to 5,136 public primary schools and 5,254 secondary schools. Every selected primary school received 70 desks while secondary school got 50 lockers and chairs.