The controller of budget Margaret Nyakang’o has spilt the beans over the irregular payment amounting to over 15 billion made just a few days to elections.

Appearing before the national assembly committee on public petitions, she claimed that she was under duress to approve the payments.

“From where I sit, I have to use a lot of discretion and as a human being, when under pressure I need to self preserve” Nyakang’o told MPs

In Whatsapp message transcripts produced by the controller of budget, they show the Treasury CS asking her to expedite the payment and that she only had 26 minutes to complete the whole process.

Despite her reluctance, Mr Yatani was insisting that the payment had to be done before the close of business that day and that even the president was aware of the transaction.

In the Whatsapp message screenshots presented by Nyakango, she has outlined how the person identified as CS Yatani coerced her to release the funds days before the August 9 election.

Yatani: “Good Afternoon, please also facilitate similar approvals for the infrastructure ministry for amounts of Ksgs8B (sic) and Sh2 billion.”

Yatani: (One hour and 20 minutes later): Yatani sent her a photo and wrote “Please help us expedite this.”

The Former National Treasury boss is said to have escalated the conversation on her email address.

He texted her a minute later saying, “H.E might even call you if we don’t deal with this by 4 pm,”.

Which prompted Nyakango to answer the Former Treasury boss asking,  : “Are you saying we have 26 minutes to complete the process?”

Yatani:He just called and I assured him that I have spoken to you and you promised

This has elicited debate over just how much money was irregularly spent by the Uhuru Kenyatta administration in the final days to the August 8th polls.