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Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has accused President William Ruto of running a “looting spree” through the newly tabled supplementary budget for 2025/26.
Gachagua, a leading critic of the Ruto administration, alleged that the government plans to divert Ksh 6.2 billion through the budget. He said the money would pass through State House, the Office of the Deputy President, the State Department of Internal Security, and the National Intelligence Service (NIS).
He wrote online that the government intends to draw the funds in cash using votes it disguises as maintenance and operations, other operating expenses, and security operations.
Gachagua also claimed the money would go toward bribing voters, paying “goons,” buying MPs and Senators, funding counterproductive empowerment programmes, and the Ol Kalou by-election.
The DCP leader also criticised the administration for planning to drain public coffers while Kenyans continue to suffer from shortages of basic services in critical sectors.
He said the country faces difficulties such as hospitals running out of drugs, cancer patients dealing with severe pain, students lacking capitation, and university and college learners receiving no funding. “This is happening when hospitals have no drugs, cancer patients are deep pain, our students have no capitation, university and college students have no funding, name it!” he added.
Under the Supplementary Budget II, total spending is expected to increase by Ksh 17.29 billion, bringing the 2025/26 figure to Ksh 4.6 trillion. The National Treasury has proposed an additional Ksh 8.1 billion in recurrent expenditure, with the Sports Department set to receive the largest share of Ksh 4.1 billion, raising its final allocation to Ksh 29.26 billion.
The budget also provides for an extra Ksh 3.8 billion for MSMEs, lifting the allocation to Ksh 12 billion, and an additional Ksh 3.5 billion for the NIS, bringing its total to Ksh 64.9 billion.
State House will get a further Ksh 1 billion, increasing its budget to Ksh 18.54 billion, while the Office of the Deputy President will receive Ksh 200 million, bringing expenditure to Ksh 5.3 billion.
Education’s budget is set to rise to Ksh 132.6 billion after it receives an extra Ksh 1.5 billion.
Source: NairobiWire.com | Read the Full Story…
