Government Of Kenya has spent a total of Ksh 23.2 billion over the last three years on motor vehicle related expenses, even though on June 15th 2006, Amos Kimunya, Minister for Finance said that “Ministers, Assistant Ministers and Permanent Secretaries will be allowed only one official car each to ensure equity. I have factored the savings arising from this measure with a view to providing transport allowances to all civil servants. Therefore from 1st July
no public officials will be expected to use official vehicles to and from
duty.”
This was followed by Office of the President circular Ref: OP.CA3.23/1A of June 30th 2006 which adopted an official transportation policy “to address weaknesses observed in the existing transport policy which was characterised by mismanagement, high maintenance costs and inefficiency, lack of parity in allocation of transport facilities, proliferation of vehicle models and idle capacity due to the imbalance of number of vehicles and drivers, lack of
capacity to enforce regulations on the4 use of government vehicles and e3scalating costs of providing government transport which stood in excess of Ksh 4 billion per annum, without corresponding improvement in service delivery.”
The Financial Secretary’s statement was in response to headline media coverage which had stated that public vehicles of luxury model were on sale secretly at throw away prices. At the time the Financial Secretary stated that Treasury’s records indicated that 488 vehicles had been sold by December 2008 through open tender, and the sale had realised a total of Ksh 194,061,335 which had already been paid into the Exchequer.
Another 811 vehicles had been advertised for sale and as of November 25th 2008 were awaiting tender committee awards. A further 789 GOK vehicles were under process to be sold by advertisement in early January 2009.
In total therefore, the Government had retrieved 2,088 vehicles from public departments for sale under this scheme.
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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:26:05 +0100 [09:26:05 AM CDT]
From: Mars Group Kenya
Subject: NYC MARS GROUP KENYA UPDATES:GOVERNMENT OF KENYA SPENT KSH 23.2 BILLION IN 3 YEARS ON MOTOR VEHICLE RELATED EXPENSES – A CASE FOR A CAR COUNT?