The State House Comptroller Kinuthia Mbugua has been put on the spot for failing to appear before Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly on Tuesday to shed more light on audit queries in the presidency.
The committee has now summoned Kinuthia, who was expected to explain the irregular expenditures at State House for the 2015/16 financial year as raised by the office of the Auditor-General, but he opted to send an apology in order to attend a press briefing.
The committee is not satisfied with the expenditure presented at the table of the house and wants a comprehensive report over the same with immediate effect from Kinuthia, who is the former governor of Nakuru.
He has been put to task to respond to audit queries over Sh2.7 billion expenditure at the State House after the records failed to show how the said amount was spent between 2013 and 2016.
Kinuthia, who unsuccessfully defended his gubernatorial seat in the 2017 General elections, had requested the meeting reschedule because he was engaged in daily duties at State House but the committee said the matter was urgent
PAC’s chairman Opiyo Wandayi (Ugunja), however, said that Kinuthia must appear before the team as asked because it is part of his duties as an accounting officer in one of the top offices in the land.
“All accounting officers must appear before PAC when invited,” Mr Wandayi said in part, as quoted by Daily Nation.