Treasury CS caught up in Sh10 billion suspicious county expenditure

Council of Governors Chair Wycliffe Oparanya (centre) addresses a press a press conference in Nairobi alongside Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu (left) and his Murang'a Mwangi wa Iria, on Tuesday, May 07 2019. [David Njaaga,Standard]

Governors have accused Treasury of sneaking in some items in county budgets without their knowledge.

At the heart of the dispute is the whereabouts of an estimated Sh10 billion which was irregularly approved and supposedly spent by counties, but which governors of affected counties have disowned.