County assembly representatives in Kisumu were expected to have surrendered their passports and the boarding passes they used during foreign trips to the anti-graft agency by Thursday, as it moved in to investigate allegations of corruption.
In a memo through the clerk, Mr Nelco Sagwe, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission demanded documents used during trips to China, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United States and Uganda last year.
Mr Sagwe said the request by the commission was an audit on how money was spent by the assembly.
FINANCIAL MATTERS
"We are required to make open all financial matters," he said. The members were also asked to surrender copies of their passport pages showing dates of departure from Kenya, arrival in the foreign country, departure from those countries and arrival back in Kenya.
"Urgently inform all members of the assembly that all the documents must be available on or before February 19," the memo reads.
Detectives will also be investigating reports that the trips were prepared and debated in the assembly before they were forwarded to Governor Jack Ranguma for approval. This comes in the wake of a task force report that implicated senior assembly members in corruption.
ODM leader Raila Odinga called for the investigations in the wake of corruption allegations in the county.
A report released on Wednesday at the party's Orange House headquarters in Nairobi, accuses the assembly's public service board chaired by suspended Speaker Ann Adul of impropriety in awarding contracts.
It also accuses Ms Adul of using her influence to wire kickbacks from companies awarded contracts to her associates' accounts
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