State House Chief of Staff Nzioka Waita has distanced the national government from fictitious budget noted on Kiambu County government 2018/19 expenditures.
In a heated Public Accounts and Investiments Senate Committee on Thursday, Senators poked holes on Governor Ferdinand Waititu's expenditures in the report tabled by Auditor General Edward Ouko.
According to the audit report, Kiambu County allocated a mind-blowing Sh973 million to State House Affairs (Co-ordination of State House functions).
Another weird expenditure was on the administration of statutory benefits for retired presidents at a cost of Sh180 million and state corporation advisory service at a cost of Sh591 million.
"If you go further...you will find that County Government of Kiambu has a budget line of Kenya-South Sudan advisory services at Sh58,108,000."
"And when you go further under Education, Gender, Culture and Social Services, Kiambu County Government had a budget line for Free Primary Education at Sh804 million," Kajwang read, dropping another shocker in the Waititu looked calm.
But in a quick rejoinder, Mr Waita said that the budgetary estimates by Waititu's government has nothing to do with State House. He insisted that State House does not share budgets with the County Government of Kiambu.
"Just for the record . @StateHouseKenya does not share any budgets with the County Government of Kiambu," he wrote.
The statement from Waita was in response to Governor Waititu, who averred that his team may have used template for National Government budget. He dismissed the report that such expenditures were incurred.
"What I have seen is also new to me. I think it is a misuse of the National Government template because nobody could have assumed that we have such figures in our county. Because we don't have a budget for those things and therefore there is no expense at all," Waititu replied.