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The man who unearthed the multi-billion Afya House scandal has petitioned Parliament to audit the country’s debt commitment, including interests charged on the same.

Auditor Bernard Muchere, who lifted the lid on the Sh5 billion scandal at the Ministry of Health, cites potential misappropriation of taxpayers’ millions.

Muchere said there is need for an urgent expenditure estimates and debt cleansing by the House before enactment of the Appropriation Act.

“Interrogate the 2023/2024 domestic debt repayment estimates of Sh1,002,802,499,719 with emphasis on the interest amounting to Sh628,263,951,790 to establish their integrity,” he told MPs.

In a petition filed with the Clerk of the National Assembly, Muchere argued that the 2023/24 budget estimates is inconsistent with Article 220 of the Constitution.

“The 2023/24 annual budget estimates failed to meet the constitutional threshold as espoused under Article 220 of the Constitution and contain therein repayments of unathorised domestic debts (principal and interest), payments of interest and commitment fees on undisbursed external debts and ineligibly budgetary allocations rendering the budgetary estimates unrealistic, ”the petitioner said.

Article 220 provides that the budget of national and county governments shall contain estimates of revenues and expenditure differentiating between development estimates and recurrent estimates.

The petitioner said that the 2023-24 budget...

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