The Mountain Journal
Murang’a Governor Mwangi wa Iria met the Senate Committee on Public Accounts and investment and managed to convince the members on the spending of millions of shillings into the mitigating to stop the spread of Covid 19.
The governor appeared in the virtual meeting following the Monday incident where the executive members were disconnected from the meeting.
At the start of the meeting, Iria demanded to be furnished with reasons that led his executives to be thrown out of the meetings yet they had answers to the questions forwarded by the committee.
In the proceeding, the meeting chaired by Senator Ledama Olekina asked the county government to furnish them with details on the isolation beds and return of the unutilized Sh33 million to the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
While Senator Beth Mugo lauded the projects initiated in Murang’a to support the devolved functions.
The Governor on his part challenged the senate to push The National Treasury to release funding to the counties to help deal with the Covid 19 pandemic.
“ The counties are suffering in the fight against the pandemic, as they last received the disbursement in January,” said Iria.
He further told the senators that his administration to address the shortage of oxygen in health facilities will extend the plant to increase production to 50 cylinders in a day from 10 cylinders.
“ Presently we spend between 10 and 25 cylinders in a day and due to the pandemic, we are forced to source the extra from outside. The excess oxygen from the plant will be shared with the neighbours,” said the Governor who was accompanied by his health Executive Joseph Mbai.
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