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Counties panic over delay in releasing Sh76b as financial year comes ends

Kakamega governor Wycliffe Oparanya

The Council of Governors (CoG) has raised a red flag over Sh76billion not yet released but was allocated to counties in the 2019/20 financial year ending in less than a month.

The County bosses say that the remaining balance ought to have been disbursed to help counties deal with challenges of COVID-19 pandemic as well as floods and locust invasion across the country.

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