Development cash lies idle as governors focus on salaries

Comptroller of budget Agnes Odhiambo. She has indicted counties of continuing to spend very little on development and excess on salaries and wages. [File, Standard]

County governments are running out of time to spend billions of shillings set aside for development projects by June 30, the end of the 2017/18 financial year.

The Controller of Budget’s implementation report indicates that counties only spent eight per cent of development cash between July and December 2017.