The Senate County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) has called on the Office of the Auditor General to conduct a Special audit on how the Sh27 billion allocated to the defunct Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) was expended.

The Committee further wants similar audits conducted to determine the size of Nairobi Own Source Revenue and the pending bills incurred by both the City County and NMS in the last five years.

Details of these emerged on Monday when the committee hosted Governor Johnson Sakaja to consider the books of accounts for Nairobi County for the 2019/20 financial year.

Governor Sakaja told the committee that NMS did not conduct a formal handover when its mandate expired after last year’s general election even as the committee was told NMS had incurred pending bills amounting to Sh16 billion.

“We shall not pay the Sh16 billion until a forensic audit is done to explain how the funds were used,” Governor Sakaja told the committee, adding that upon assumption to the office had written to the Auditor General Nancy Gathungu asking her to conduct the special audit.