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Uhuru order on tenders starves counties of cash

Council of Governors Chairman and Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s effort to streamline the procurement process might be taking a toll on the disbursement of development cash to counties.

In what is likely to increase friction between the national and county governments, Treasury is said to have insisted on development funds to be disbursed only to counties that have complied with an order to upload their tenders to the public information procurement portal.

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