Jubilee Coalition Presidency Extravagance, an Economic threat to Kenya

Based on the new Kenyan constitution promulgated by the former president Mwai Kibaki, The institution of presidency currently consists of the office of the President and that of the Deputy President. This institution shares a common budget in expenditure.
During the presentation of the 2015/2016 fiscal budget at the parliament building, the current cabinet secretary for finance issued a directive that required government offices to cut on their foreign travel and hospitality budget by at least 30%. This has however turned out to be the opposite in the office of the president.
Based on the fiscal audit in the public domain and that from the Bureau of the controller of the budget, the figures of this budget required to be cut by 30%, have inflated by 75%. The trips are characterized by escorts of presidential security personnel and close political friends who get an opportunity to know what it means to have a first class travel.
It is during these trips that the so-called state dignitaries siphon money from the poor taxpayers with no particular economic value. With all accommodation catered for, here I mean food and bed, the senior officials receive up to $400 in a day. Considering a familiar example of recent trips that started in The Hague, then to Malta followed by the Paris conference and finally in South Africa, Some of these officials have been outside the country for one month. This adds to $12000 in a month of travel allowances exclusive of their monthly salaries.
For the whole month, the wages of these officials lack use since their food and other personal needs have been catered for by the state. Despite this evidenced by the ailing economy and the endless lamentation from the key productive players in the tight economy, the institution has turned a deaf ear to this in the name of marketing the country’s economy.
The recent implementation of exercise duty from an act of parliament which the CS described as a means of cutting down on lifestyle problems, it is evident that life of the poor ordinary citizen is going to continue ailing and his tear glands should be set to shed more tears. No economy does not rely on the oil industry, imposing a tax on this product translates to the taxation of every service in a country.
Based on the reports from the same government, the presidency has already hit the recurrent budget estimate for travel and hospitality. There have been so far no any reasonable efforts to cut on this expenditure or reduce the effects of the continuously dwindling economy. Kenyans are therefore left wondering and asking the following questions;

1. Why can’t the presidency work on the mechanism of cutting on the delegation that accompanies any out of the country’s travel?
2. As much as it can be justified, what is the essence of huge travel allowances when food and bed are catered for the delegation?
3. Aren’t the several cabinet secretaries able to be delegated with some of these duties and president remaining at home to carry some duties?
4. Are all these trips necessary by the way?

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