<div dir="auto">What does it take to divert such funds? Parliament?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, 21:00 Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet, <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Wangusi is in office, and he is showing the independence of institutions. Read in... </div><div dir="auto"><br></div>Last month, President Kenyatta directed that CA gives Sh1 billion from the Universal Service Fund to the DCI. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Universal Service Fund was set up in 2009 and is primarily financed by mandatory contributions from licensed operators.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15.4px" dir="auto"><p>Director-General Francis Wangusi on Tuesday said funds are already committed to other projects and the authority does not have the money required by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.</p></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15.4px" dir="auto"><p>Last month, President Kenyatta directed that CA gives Sh1 billion from the Universal Service Fund to the DCI.</p></div><div dir="auto"><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15.4px">“The money that we have for the Universal Service Fund is already committed. I wouldn’t really say that we have money to put into other projects if the priority projects have not been completed,” Mr Wangusi said.</p><div dir="auto" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15.4px"><p>Wangusi said that the monies available had been directed towards connecting 78 sub-locations that do not have access to any network.</p></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15.4px"><p>The money will also be used to connect broadband to schools across the country at a cost of Sh7 billion.</p></div><div dir="auto"><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15.4px">He said CA still needs Sh70 billion to fill existing gaps.</p><p style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:15.4px"><br></p><p><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:15.4px"><a href="https://www.nation.co.ke/news/CA-boss-Wangusi-defies-Uhuru-s-Sh1bn-cash-order-/1056-4352064-view-asAMP-t632t2z/index.html?__twitter_impression=true" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.nation.co.ke/news/CA-boss-Wangusi-defies-Uhuru-s-Sh1bn-cash-order-/1056-4352064-view-asAMP-t632t2z/index.html?__twitter_impression=true</a></span></font><br></p></div></div></div></div>
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