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Recurrent expenditure took lion's share of county budgets

Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang'o. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

County governments spent most of their budgets on personal emoluments in the first nine months of the last financial year.

This was at the expense of development, according to a new report by the Controller of Budget.

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