Ruto, Gachagua, and Mudavadi offices allocated KSh802 million for purchase of Cars
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Ruto, Gachagua, and Mudavadi offices allocated KSh802 million for the purchase of motor vehicles
Ruto, Gachagua, and Mudavadi offices allocated KSh802 million for the purchase of motor vehicles.
Kenya’s top three government offices have been allocated Sh802 million for the purchase of motor vehicles.
This is eight times the budget allocation the offices of President William Ruto, his deputy Rigathi Gachagua and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi had been allocated in the 2022/23 fiscal year.
The offices of President William Ruto, his deputy Rigathi Gachagua and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi have been allocated Sh802.2 million to buy motor vehicles in the current financial year, a significant increase from what had been allocated as Kenyans come to terms with a bloated government that has scuttled Kenya Kwanza’s austerity measures.
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 Sh80 million.
Mr. Gachagua’s office will take the lion’s share. It will receive Sh290.8 million up from Sh90 million allocated by former Treasury CS Ukur Yatani.
In total, the budget for the purchase of new cars for all the State bodies in the current financial year ending June more than doubled to Sh2.06 billion from Sh810.3 million that had been allocated in the original budget, with the three offices accounting for more than 40 percent of the budget.
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While retired President Uhuru Kenyatta got Sh140 million for a fleet of cars in his retirement, the Office of the President and Cabinet Secretaries also received an additional Sh154 million for cars.
The most recent adjustments increased the initial Sh10 million allotment to Sh35 million for the State House.
Once Ruto takes into account the vehicles required by the 50 newly appointed chief administrative secretaries, the car budget is anticipated to go up.
This comes despite Ruto’s promise to cut extravagance and wasteful spending as he moves to contain the country’s debt.
The purchase of cars will increase recurrent expenditure, as it will also come with the additional costs of fuel and maintenance.
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