Auditor General Exposes 4 Other Counties With Ridiculous Budgets

The Auditor General's report on Monday exposed four other Counties that may face grilling over ridiculous budgeting.

The County bosses from Kakamega Wycliffe Oparanya, Kitui Charity Ngilu, Nyeri Mutahi Kahiga and Laikipia Ndiritu Muriithi may face similar consequences to those of Kiambu Governor, Ferdinand Waititu.

The Auditor General report noted that the expenditures were approved and paid by the Counties in question.

Just like in Kiambu County, Kakamega used Ksh 173.5 million for Kenya-South Sudan advisory Services and Ksh 75 million on State House functions. The County also used Ksh 41.2 million on Leadership and Coordination of MDAs. 

Other expenses included Ksh 49 million to finance National Community Development Programme and Ksh 190.5 million on National Statistics Information Services.

In Kitui County, Ksh1.8 billion was used for General Administration Planning and Support Services, Ksh 245 million for Cabinet affairs, Ksh 30 million for Government Advisory Services and Ksh 30 million for State Corporation Advisory Services.

Other expenses included Ksh 60 million on State House affairs and Ksh 50.8 million on TVETs.

For Nyeri, expenditures totaled Ksh 8 billion. They included Ksh 2.6 billion for Preventive and Promotive Health Services, Ksh 2.4 million for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention Control, Ksh 299 million for Cabinet Affairs, Ksh 910 million for Government Advisory Services and another Ksh 910 million for State Corporations Advisory.

Other Expenditures included Ksh 706 million for Public Service Transportation, Ksh 700 million for Human Resource Management, Ksh 197 million for International Trade and Ksh 264 million for Special Needs Education.

In Laikipia County, Ksh 490 million was used for National Statistical Information Service, Ksh 94.2 million for Economic and Financial Policy Formulation and Management. The County also allocated Ksh 51.5 million on Free Primary Education.

The County also used Ksh 480 million on Inter-governmental Revenue and Financial matters, Ksh 95.5 million to Cabinet Affairs and Ksh7 million to Economic Planning and Regional Integration.

Other Counties include Kirinyaga County, where County expenditures were used on rail transport (Ksh 48.8 million), Government clearing services (Ksh 512.3 million), State House affairs (Ksh327 million), Health, Research and development (Ksh 1.76 million), marine transport (Ksh 3.2 million).

In Murang'a County, Ksh 2.95 million was used to build the Assistant Chief's camp, refurbishing DCI and Deputy County AP Commander homes. They also transferred Ksh 502 million to other Counties and Repayment of domestic and foreign loans at (Ksh 16.5 million).

Nyamira County allocated Ksh 6.9 million on State House affairs, Ksh 63.7 million on Cabinet affairs, Ksh 9.4 million on Coordination of Ministries, departments and agencies as well as Ksh271.5 million on primary education.

In Samburu County, Ksh 80.2 million was allocated to State House affairs, Ksh 13.2 million to East Africa customs, Ksh 74 million to Government chemist and Ksh 33 million for Health research.

Nakuru County used Ksh 44.5 million for loan repayment.

In Kilifi County, Ksh 11.7 million was allocated to Intergovernmental relations county support.