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Survey: Over Sh300b for development sits idle in State coffers

The level of absorption of funds for development plans has been too low for the country to achieve the envisaged double-digit economic growth.

By James Anyanzwa

An estimated Sh300 billion reserved for the implementation of key development programmes in the country could be lying idle in government coffers.

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