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Counties splash billions on staff as projects are starved of cash

The National Treasury building, Nairobi. July 9th, 2020. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

County governments spent at least half of the money allocated to them in paying salaries, a violation of the public finance management (PFM) laws.

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