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The National Assembly in session. MPs have maintained a stranglehold on CDF kitty. [PHOTO: FILE]
NAIROBI, KENYA: Scores of MPs have been stopped from spending millions of shillings in taxpayers money on constituency projects that could be seen as vehicles for political patronage or attempts to cover up alleged misuse of funds.
While MPs have persistently vilified the governors, accusing them of misusing county funds, it emerged that the national custodian of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), which was allocated Sh33 billion this year, had uncovered illegal expenditures that some lawmakers had hidden in their budget plans.
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