On the 2nd of November, 2017, The Report of the Auditor General on the Accounts of the Republic for the financial year ended 31st December 2016 became a public document. The report revealed that a total of K538 million was under query in the financial year ending 2016. This amount is a reduction from K881 million that was under query in the financial year end 2015.
Although the report shows a general reduction in the amounts of money that came under query the report highlighted significant audit queries of increased incidents for Unaccounted for Revenues, Misapplication of funds, Unaccounted for Funds and Unretired Accountable Imprest, as well as Unaccounted for Stores.