{"id":17544,"date":"2025-04-09T10:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17544"},"modified":"2025-04-10T08:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T08:23:30","slug":"githunguri-mp-gathoni-wamuchomba-accuses-treasury-of-misappropriating-ksh20m-tvet-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17544","title":{"rendered":"Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba Accuses Treasury of Misappropriating Ksh20M TVET Funds."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hq720-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hq720-1.jpg 686w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hq720-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 686px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Githunguri Member of Parliament, Gathoni Wamuchomba, has intensified her criticism of the Kenya Kwanza administration, alleging financial misconduct involving Ksh20 million meant for a development project in her constituency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement issued on <strong>Wednesday, April 9<\/strong>, Wamuchomba accused a senior official at the National Treasury\u2014specifically the Principal Secretary\u2014of <strong>embezzling funds allocated in 2023<\/strong> for the fencing of the Githunguri Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a bold and defiant move, the outspoken legislator said she was <strong>willing to be arrested<\/strong> if her claims were proven false. \u201cLet them come for me if I\u2019m wrong,\u201d she said, doubling down on her stance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This latest outburst comes just days after Wamuchomba was <strong>summoned by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)<\/strong> over her recent &#8220;Ruto must go&#8221; remarks made ahead of President William Ruto\u2019s scheduled tour of the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a <strong>viral video<\/strong>, the MP urged residents of Githunguri to boycott the President&#8217;s rally, escalating tensions between her and the ruling coalition. Following her DCI appearance on <strong>Monday, April 7<\/strong>, she made yet another troubling claim \u2014 that her life was in danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Githunguri Member of Parliament, Gathoni Wamuchomba, has intensified her criticism of the Kenya Kwanza administration, alleging financial misconduct involving Ksh20 million meant for a development project in her constituency. In a statement issued on Wednesday, April 9, Wamuchomba accused a senior official at the National Treasury\u2014specifically the Principal Secretary\u2014of embezzling funds allocated in 2023 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hq720-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17546,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions\/17546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}