PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO 

Taxpayers will continue footing the rent bill for the office of Auditor-General after the Treasury failed to allocate money for the construction of the Kenya National Audit Office headquarters in the financial year starting July 1.

The Treasury has for the second year in a row failed to provide a budgetary allocation to the office of Auditor-General to construct its headquarters at Bishops Road in Nairobi.

The Treasury budget data shows the office of Auditor-General has been allocated Sh228 million under recurrent expenditure in rent for the financial year starting July 1, 2020.

The Treasury had allocated Embu office block Sh74 million but the block cost taxpayers Sh146.7 million in the current financial year.

The Treasury has allocated the office of Auditor General Sh49.3 million for construction of the Embu office block in the year starting July 1.