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Energy ministry put in a spot over excess spending on key projects

Energy Cabinet Secretary Charles Keter. There are concerns his ministry is over spending.

The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum will need to explain why its expenditure on certain projects exceeded its budget.

According to the Controller of Budget in the latest half-year report, the Ministry’s expenditure of loans and grants it received to finance some projects, or appropriation-in-aid (A-I-A), exceeds the National Treasury’s printed estimates in the Supplementary Budget.

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