Kenya should use funds prudently

The Controller of Budget's report on county finances for the financial year 2015/2016 is out. As in previous reports, there appears to be little improvement, if any, in the management of funds which, instead of going primarily to finance development projects, have been used on recurrent expenditure. There is more money being spent on paying staff salaries and allowances than initiating development programmes.

This raises a fundamental issue; whether counties overemployed staff, some of who are duplicating their work or whether it is a clear case of mismanagement of public resources. In many counties, members of county assemblies have spent huge sums of money on sitting and travelling allowances, with nothing tangible to show for it.