Nairobi, Dec. 4 -- Bursaries worth millions of shillings were awarded to students whose records could not be traced and their application had no names of their learning institutions.

Latest audit reports of the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) tabled in Parliament indicate a pattern where millions of shillings were recorded to have been sent to students, but when Auditor General Nancy Gathungu asked for verification documents, they were not available.

Some constituencies spent millions to take students to private technical institutions but could neither provide the list of beneficiaries nor show evidence of training. In some, bursaries were disbursed without the NG-CDF committee sitting to assess applicants' ne...