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From stalled to incomplete facilities, residents are asking whether taxpayers will ever get value for their money

A Sh 10 million structure built during the president Mwai Kibaki regime under an Economic Stimulus Program at the Kerugoya stadium ,lies idle many years after completion and now being used as shelter by street children . similar one was built at Kimbimbi market and has remained closed since it was competed .PHOTO;Munene Kamau/standard.

Hundreds of millions of taxpayers' funds have been pumped into moribund projects in counties across the Mt Kenya region, which have not been of benefit to tax payers.

In Kirinyaga County, two markets built in 2009 under the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) at a cost of Sh10 million each, have never been used.

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