Kirinyaga governor Ann Waiguru on Monday appeared before senate to answer to queries raised in the financial year ending June 2018.
It has now emerged that, just as his Kiambu counterpart, Waiguru’s also funded state house affairs.
The county used approximately Sh 400 million outside budget lines or rather outside county government roles.
These included free primary education, and East African Community duties.
However, this could be another gross error by Auditor General Edward Ouko who admitted to have erred in the Waititu’s report.
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According to Ouko, the problem occurred because they had used the wrong template, which generates the information that was used by the auditor.
Other counties affected by the erroneous reports generated from the Integrated Financial and Management System (Ifmis) were Laikipia, Kwale, Nyamira, Samburu, Garissa and Lamu.
For instance, Kiambu governor Ferdinand Waititu was unable to explain the expenditure of Sh2.5 billion to fund activities such as Government Advisory Services, Kenya -South Sudan Advisory Services, State Houses Offices— which are preserve of the National government.
Elsewhere, in Kakamega, the Auditor General had said that Sh173m was used to fund Government Advisory Services, Sh173.5m for Kenya-South Sudan Advisory Services, Sh75m on Coordination of State House functions and a further Sh41.2m on Leadership and Coordination of MDAs.
Other expenditures include Sh49m to finance National Community Development Programme and Sh190.5 million on National Statistics Information Services.
Nyeri county was not spared too as expenditures by Mutahi Kahiga’s administration totaling Sh8 billion included Sh2.6b for Preventive and Promotive Health Services and Sh2.4b for Non – Communicable Disease Prevention Control, Cabinet Affairs Sh299m, Government Advisory Services Sh910m and State Corporations Advisory Sh910m.
The county also allegedly paid Sh706m for Public Service Transformation, Sh700m for Human Resource Management, Sh197m for International Trade and Sh264 for Special Needs Education.
Charity Ngilu’s Kitui County government dubious expenditure of more than Sh3 billion included Sh1.8b for General Administration Planning and Support Services, Sh245m for Cabinet Affairs, Sh30 million for Government Advisory Services and another Sh30.3m for State Corporation Advisory Services.
In Laikipia, governor Muriithi allegedly spent Sh490m on National Statistical Information Service, Sh94.2m for Economic and Financial Policy Formulation and Management and Sh51.5 million on Free Primary Education.