Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has come to the defense of the governors with bizarre budget line.
Ms Anne Waiguru has asked the Senate to investigate and compel the National Treasury to explain circumstances under which 14 counties generated erroneous documents that misrepresented their spending in the 2017/18 financial year.
The Auditor General report revealed that counties were splashing millions of shillings to state functions which is not within their county jurisdiction.
However, the governor, whose Kirinyaga County is among the 14, strongly denied that her administration had allocated and spent money in functions outside her jurisdiction.
According to Governor Waiguru, the National Treasury has questions to answer on how 14 counties including her own allocated funds for State House functions.#NTVTonight @murithi_kenn pic.twitter.com/huQE4jrRh6
— NTV Kenya (@ntvkenya) May 27, 2019
She challenged the Director of Integrated Financial Management Information System (Ifmis) to come clean.
Checking County Finances: Governor Waiguru claims someone at Treasury intentionally sabotaged 14 counties. #NTVToday #CartelCountry pic.twitter.com/7e52GbV1A6
— NTV Kenya (@ntvkenya) May 28, 2019
In Kirinyaga, the Auditor-General faulted Ms Waiguru for allocating Sh180 million for primary school education, Sh37 million for secondary school, Sh344 million for State House affairs, Sh50 million to rail transport, Sh3.4 million for marine transport and Sh851 million for government clearing services.
Kirinyaga Governor, Ann Waiguru, appearing before the Senate Public Accounts and Investments Committee.#NTVatOne @KenMijungu pic.twitter.com/1zbkp4SPOi
— NTV Kenya (@ntvkenya) May 27, 2019
Ms Waiguru rubbished the report claiming that the IFMIS system was manipulated by the Treasury.