President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration has found itself in the eye of a storm over allegations of flouting the law by introducing new projects in the middle of the financial year.
This was after the National Treasury proposed a number of projects for approval by House committees, which were questioned by committee heads on Tuesday.
The lawmakers opposed the projects on grounds that the government wants to use a portion of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and Judiciary funds to implement them.
Budget Committee Chair Kimani Ichung'wah accused the Executive of single-handedly making decisions on such matters and ignoring resolutions by the House.
“We wonder whether the Executive takes resolutions by this House seriously. We also asked for a report on the Universal Health Coverage which is yet to be provided yet it was on this that we were to approve funding,” said the Kikuyu MP.
Among the projects that were presented by National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani include the Nairobi Bus Rapid Transport project (Sh478m), Kenanie Leather Park (Sh2.5b) and the Dongo Kundu project (Sh3.6b).
To increase its spending by Sh80b, the executive sought to raise the money by cutting budgets of Parliament (5%), CDF (5%), Executive (85%) and Judiciary (5%).
Igembe North MP Maoka Maore criticized the executive for coming up with new project but not giving an update about the unfinished ones, whose financing was approved before.
“We have a problem with the Treasury coming up with new projects yet there is no clarity on what happens to the unfinished ones. Let it leave CDF alone," he said.
The CS said that the government is targeting surplus money which ends up being spent in luxuries by the targeted bodies.