Mudavadi’s office allocated KSh300m budget more than Gachagua’s
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Mudavadi's office allocated KSh300m budget more than Gachagua's
Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi’s office has been allocated KSh300 million budget more than Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s.
In the updated 2022/2023 public expenditure estimates, Treasury has allocated Mr. Mudavadi’s office Sh751.9 million for its recurrent budget, as opposed to Mr. Gachagua’s office receiving Sh450.85 million.
The budget allocation comes amid claims that Mudavadi and Gachagua are embroiled in supremacy battles.
Dp Gachagua serves as President Ruto’s principal assistant in addition to chairing Cabinet committees and overseeing the implementation of decisions passed by the Cabinet.
His other roles are managing relations between the two levels of government and chairing the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council while also coordinating various committees.
The Prime Cabinet Secretary’s roles include overseeing the Public Service Performance Management Unit and the government delivery services.
Besides assisting the president and his deputy, Mudavadi’s roles include supervising ministries and state departments and coordinating the government legislative agenda with Parliament.
In the meantime, the mini-budget has boosted the allocation to the Office of the President by Sh8.35 billion.
The budget, whose creation was overseen by former Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani, included Sh23.1 billion for the Office of the President, divided into Sh17.08 billion for ongoing expenses and Sh5.98 billion for development spending.
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This has, however, been pushed up to Sh31.42 billion, of which Sh24.07 billion will be for recurrent expenditure while Sh7.35 billion will be for development expenditure.
The reports of a strained relationship between Gachagua and Mudavadi gained traction after a war of words between Mt Kenya and Western leaders after Gachagua read the riot act to Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja over plans to kick out matatus from town and crack down on nightclubs.
However, in an interview with the media Mudavadi clarified that there was no bad blood between him and the deputy president.
He also denied allegations of waging a silent war against the DP to elbow him out in President Ruto’s succession matrix.
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