Official: Sex toys listed as public assets as corruption in Kenya hits new lows
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The chairman of a parliamentary committee in Kenya charged with oversight on government spending says there is "horrendous" waste of public funds lost through corruption.
Hand-pushed wheelbarrows have been purchased at $1,000 each. A government ministry bought ball-point pens that usually cost 10 cents for $85 apiece and a laptop and desktop computer for $11,000 — examples of misspending that the Parliamentary Accounts Committee is investigating, committee chairman Nicholas Gumbo said Thursday.
Gumbo said the committee is investigating a government department that had listed sex toys as assets, meaning that they had been purchased using taxpayers' money.
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Corruption is endemic in Kenya but the recent, almost daily revelation of graft, have angered the public as the government says it's borrowing money to plug holes in the budget.