The office of Deputy President William Ruto has sensationally claimed that it has not been receiving operational funds from the Treasury.
This comes even as the Third Way Alliance Party claimed that William Ruto and his Azimio la Umoja presidential flag bearer Raila Odinga were using public resources in their campaigns.
But according to William Ruto’s communication Director Emmanual Talam, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani stopped channeling the said funds since September 2021 without proper explanation.
Talam said that the former Jubilee deputy party leader has been dipping into his pockets to pay for accommodation and other expenses working at his official Karen residence including his security personnel.
“The office of the deputy president has not received money from the National Treasury. All the departments are affected. We are told it affects the entire government,
“The Office of the Deputy President has made its own arrangements to ensure operations are not interrupted. Fortunately, the PSC has been paying staff salaries,” Talam said as quoted by the Saturday Nation.
In addition to staff expenses, Ruto who has bitterly fallen out with his boss has also been forced to fuel government vehicles using money from his pocket after the vote head for this was frozen too.
The revelations come just days after the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) wrote to the Director of Public Prosecution to investigate presidential front runners William Ruto and Raila Odinga over the use of state resources in their campaigns.
This was after the Third Way Alliance Party leader Ekuru Aukot wrote to the commission expressing displeasure at the manner in which early campaigns have gained illegal currency and use of public resources by some presidential hopefuls to advance their personal and political objectives.
“An election where some candidates benefit from state resources is compromised and the results arising therefrom cannot be said to have complied with the provisions of the Constitution of Kenya,” Ekuru said.
