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Bungoma County Governor Kenneth Lusaka has promised to release a damning report to the public next week.

Kenneth Lusaka, sworn in as Bungoma Governor, appointed a three-task force team as his first executive order to look into issues like human resources, pending bills and scholarships.

“The detailed reports by the three task force is finally on my desk. The contents of the reports are shocking and will change completely how things are done in Bungoma county, “said Lusaka.

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The scholarship task force was expected to come up with exact numbers of beneficiaries, qualification criteria, budgetary allocations, and actual fee balances for beneficiaries, among other issues.

The task force on human resources, on the other hand, was expected to come up with the exact numbers of staff and identification of casuals who won a court case against the county, confirm the exact numbers of county staff, the total number of county staff, confirm the statutory deductions of county workers and their state of remittance among other things.

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The pending bills task force was expected to come up with a list of pending bills, a record of the work done and description, evidence of work done and goods delivered, and physical verification, among other things.

“I have assured residents that I will release the reports next week for public consumption. The report will streamline the way things should be done, we must correct and bring sanity to our county,” Lusaka said.

During his campaigns, Mr. Lusaka said he would review the county education support scheme.

“I will review it so that not only bright students benefit from the scheme. Let also those students who get 150 marks in KCPE get the bursary or the scholarship, they are all our children,” he said.

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During the reign of outgoing Governor Wycliffe Wangamati, over 10,000 students benefited from the scheme, which started in 2018. The first cohort of 500 students sat their KCSE exams last year.

Bungoma MCAs have summoned county government officials for questioning over the county scholarship programme after it emerged that officials made more pledges than what was budgeted for.

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