Kiambu Governor Ferdinand has finally got a clean bill of health after Auditor General Edward Ouko came to his rescue over bizzare spending allegations.
An Earlier report by the Auditor General pointed out that several counties that include Kiambu had allocated and spent millions of shillings for things they were not mandated to spend on.
Other Counties implicated in bizzare spendings included, Kakamega, Kitui, Nyeri and Kirinyaga ,Laikipia, Kwale, Nyamira, Samburu, Garissa and Lamu.
Senate, keen to know the absolute truth of how public funds were spent in the above counties ordered for a quick special qudit by the Auditor General in 45 days.
Ouko has now set the record straight arguing that the figures that were allegedly irregularly spent by the counties do not reflect the true situation of what’s on the ground.
He is now blaming bad reporting for the misguiding figures.
Auditor General has said that bad reporting of information slotted into a non-customised template resulted to the erroneous figures.
“It is just an issue of bad reporting or the information was slotted into a template which was not customised for that particular reporting of the county budget, so you end up with some budget heads from a template of the national government budget. It is not an issue of whether the counties spent money on those items, no,” he said.
“I think you have systems of accounting and then there is subsidiary reporting which is supposed to be done on the budget separately and meant to go to the County Assembly and this was really intended by the Treasury to allow the counties once they have the accounts ,they align the budget heads.” he added.
The Auditor General’s latest report will come as good news to Governor Waititu and other Governors who had come under intense criticisms for alleged misuse of Public Funds.