Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu might find himself in more trouble after State House distanced itself from his suspicious budget expenditure that he presented before the Senate Committee on Public Accounts and investments on Monday.
Chief of Staff Nzioka Waita stated that State House doesn’t share any budgets with Kiambu county.
“Just for the record State House does not share any budgets with the County Government of Kiambu,” read Nzioka’s statement.
The reports emerged after Governor Waititu’s presentation in the Senate, showed that the county government had made payments that included Ksh 973 million, used in the coordination of State House functions.
When the governor was asked to explain why payments were made for functions that should be handled by the state, he responded that the person who prepared the document may have relied on a template used by the national government.
Other suspicious expenditures that were flagged by the Senate were; Ksh180 million for the administration of benefits to retired presidents and Ksh800 million for free primary education.
The report added that Ksh591 million was used on State Corporations Advisory Committee and Ksh500 million to support South Sudan’s peace process.
Waititu was at a loss of words trying to tell the senators why he presented a document he had not read through. The governor tried to get his Finance CEC Kigo Njenga to discuss the contents of the document with the committee but he wasn’t given the opportunity.
Kisii Senator Sam Ongeri came to the rescue of the governor and suggested that the committee adjourns to a later date when the governor would come better prepared to answer the audit queries.
Waititu was then reprimanded by Kiambu Senator Kimani Wamatangi for the haphazard manner in which the tabled documents had been prepared.