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All counties failed to spend Sh85.6 billion, report shows

Nakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui when he appeared before the Senate County Public Accounts and Investment Committee on audit queries. Nakuru County leads the pack with Sh3.9 billion unspent cash. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

County governments failed to spend Sh85.6 billion out of Sh314 billion allocated to them in the last financial year.

The huge unspent balance has been revealed even as a standoff over governors' demands for an extra Sh19 billion this year escalates.

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