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Tuesday, March 21, 2023 –Budget to buy new cars for the three top State officials has shot up eight times. Details have emerged.
This was indicated in the latest changes to the spending plan that also benefited retired President Uhuru Kenyatta who left office in August.
Three offices of President William Ruto, his deputy Rigathi Gachagua and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi have been allocated a whopping sh 802.2 million to buy motor vehicles in the current financial year.
The biggest beneficiary among the three is Mr Gachagua whose office was given sh 290.8 million for the vehicles, an increase of sh 200 million from sh 90.8 million that had previously been allocated by former the Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani.
In the Daily Nation of Tuesday March 21 report, this is a shocking increase from what had been allocated as the country continues to come to terms with a bloated William Ruto government.
The Daily Nation established that, in the budget estimates for the Financial Year 2022/23, the three offices had been allocated Sh100.8 million, though the office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary had not been catered for. However, the exclusion of the Prime CS only cuts the expenditure by 10 percent, or sh 80 million.
In total, the budget for the purchase of new cars for all the State bodies in the current financial year ending June has more than doubled to sh 2.06 billion from sh 810.3 million that had been allocated in the original budget, with the three offices accounting for more than 40 percent of the budget.
