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‘Cash cow’ that cost State Sh10m

The Government took over an NGO-funded project in Turkana whose cost doubled and had set taxpayers back Sh10 million by 2005, The Standard can report.

Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report for the year 2004-2005 detailed how the construction of a sub-district hospital in Turkana that began in 1989 became a cash cow.

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