Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu has come clean about the ridiculous budget allocations that were presented to the Senate County Public Accounts and Investment Committee.
In an interview done on KTN News Thursday night, Waititu stated that the budget was for the year 2017/18 and had been prepared by the previous government.
" It's actually not us who did this budget but for the previous Government, under Governor Kabogo," he stated.
Waititu stated that the document had additional pages that he considered foreign but he did not question it because it was coming from the Auditor General.
"It's like this is the whole report, it had up to page 16 but from page 17 there's an annexure, which according to us is a foreign document," he illustrated.
"This is a system generated document and anything could have happened to it, a mistake or somebody could have put it in our document to portray our County as being irresponsible," he continued.
On Thursday, the Governor who was before the Senate was unable to answer questions that arose from the documents from 2017/18 financial year that he presented himself.
The report showed that Kiambu County had allocated Ksh180 million for the administration of benefits to retired presidents.
Ksh973 million was also documented to have been used in the coordination of State House functions and Ksh800 million for free primary education.
The report added that Ksh591 million was used on State Corporations Advisory Committee and Ksh58 million to support South Sudan's peace process.
The Senators were baffled at how such monies were allocated for functions that clearly fell under the national government.
