The Siaya County Governor James Orengo has decried infiltration of corrupt tenderpreneurs at the County offices.
According to him, the 'renowned Mafia clans from Sicily' operate with impunity, just like the tenderpreneurs.
He said that the tenderpreneurs had gained access to virtually all of the county offices' papers and transactions in real-time by infiltrating nearly every division of county administration.
To execute the recommendations of a task force on the county's financial operations, led by the former Auditor General, Edward Ouko, he was speaking at a public participatory meeting with the civil society.
The governor stated that for the county to advance, the clique must be dealt with, and sanity must be restored in the heavily impacted finance and procurement dockets.
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"To free the energy of this county, we must deal with these characters," Orengo said.
Additionally, Orengo noted that the "mafia" had agents and were trailing the movement of documents within procurement and finance.
"The worst thing is that they have agents and every single paper that is processed, even at the approval stage, is always in the public domain," he lamented.
Further, he mandated the finance department to disclose all tender awards and, if practical, the criteria used to select the winners.
Orengo lamented that some county government employees need to be pushed to do their duties and urged them to do so.
He cited the revenue department as an example, saying that before the task force was established, revenue collection needed to improve.
Edward Ouko, a former government auditor general, urged the Siaya County Assembly to follow the law when creating the budget, stressing that any modifications must not go beyond the legal one per cent threshold
