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Kenya cannot afford wastage on VIP travels

When Prime Cabinet Minister Musalia Mudavadi represent President William Ruto at a high-level summit in Angola. [Twitter, Musalia Mudavadi]

Barely days after National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung'u presented the 2023/24 Budget of Sh3.6 trillion and which will be financed through heavy taxation, runaway wastefulness in the Kenya Kwanza administration has been laid bare.

According to the latest report of the Controller of Budget, the national government and Parliament spent Sh14 billion in local and foreign travel in the last nine months, the highest in a similar period in the last five years.

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