Deputy president-elect, Rigathi Gachagua will be smiling his way to the office according to the latest budgetary estimates that targetted the second-in-command should the Supreme Court uphold the election outcome.
According to the National Treasury budget estimates for the financial year 2022/2023, the deputy president's office will receive Ksh1.7 billion, as opposed to the initial Ksh1.5 billion that the office received in the 2021/2022 budget allocation.
This indicated a Ksh200,000 increase in the latest budgetary allocation.
The past allocations saw DP's office budgetary allocation shoot from Ksh2.2 billion in the 2017/ 2018 financial year to Ksh2.7 billion in the 2018/2019 period.
In 2019/ 2020, the DP's office was allocated Ksh2.5 billion- indicating a reduction of Ksh63.6 million. The following year saw the allocation reduced by Ksh897.8 million.
A past report by Nation in March 2022, indicated that the National Treasury had delayed releasing operational funds for the DP's office.
At the time, Ruto's Communications Director, Emmanuel Talam, affirmed that the delays affected the entire government.
"The office of the DP has not received money from the National Treasury. All the departments are affected. We are told it affects the entire government.
“The Office of the Deputy President has made its own arrangements to ensure operations are not interrupted. Fortunately, the PSC has been paying staff salaries," Talam stated.
Uhuru and Ruto had engaged in a war of words during their final term- with the former accusing his deputy of absconding his duties and being obsessed with succession politics.
