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Plea: Shield our Sh10b assets from hungry counties, says agency

Lake Basin Development Authority chairman Odoyo Owidi addresses the press on Thursday. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

A regional development agency is seeking the intervention of the Office of the President over what it terms plots by county governments to sabotage its operations.

The Lake Basin Development Authority (LBDA), which serves 18 counties in western Kenya and parts of Rift Valley, has written to the Presidential Service Delivery Unit seeking protection for its Sh10 billion assets, mostly large tracts of land in the counties.

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