Cabinet Secretary National Treasury and Planning, Henry Rotich, and his officers were roped into the Ksh10 billion outrageous budgets saga following a meeting convened by the Council of Governors (CoG).
CoG chairman, Wycliffe Oparanya, revealed that they had concluded that the Treasury had secretly added some items in the county budget's Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) accounts.
Oparanya went on to claim that the affected counties had no records of having received nor budgeted for the dubious amounts.
According to the reports generated by IFMIS, some counties such as Kiambu had allegedly spent hundreds of millions in financing ridiculous projects like peacekeeping in Sudan as well as State House affairs.
“As the council of governors, we want to know who spent the money if indeed the money was spent,” asserted Governor Oparanya.
He added that they had concluded someone from the treasury must be sneaking items into the system as an elaborate scheme to loot government coffers of billions.
“Since the county governments did not use the money stated in the erroneous report, who spent it? Is someone somewhere looting counties' funds through doctored entries?” he posed.
The National Treasury, on its part, denied the damning accusations, adding that they were not responsible for budget preparations at the county level.
Speaking through Principal Secretary (PS), Kamau Thugge, the Treasury stated that it was, in fact, the governors who were solely responsible for the recent ludicrous budgets generated by IFMIS.
The PS asserted that it was the duty of the county to ensure that budgets were prepared and captured accurately.
"We will not be intimidated into apologizing over an issue that was caused by pure negligence on the part of the governors," he asserted.
His statements came after Kirinyaga Governor, Anne Waiguru, demanded a public apology from the treasury following the damaging reports that she claimed had damaged the reputations of several governors including herself.
