Budget -Three offices of President William Ruto, Musalia Mudavadi and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua have increased car budget eight times higher.
The three executives have been allocated a whopping sh 802.2 million to buy motor vehicles in the current financial year. This is eight times higher than usual.
According to a major media outlet, 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 Wednesday March 21 report, this is shocking increase from what had been allocated as the country continues to come to terms with a bloated 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.
