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Kenyan ministries blow billions in allowances, salaries as development spend lags

 

Personal emoluments—allowances and salaries still constitute a chunk of the Government’s recurrent spending, a new report by the Office of the Controller of Budget (COB) shows.

This is despite the directive by President Uhuru Kenyatta that Cabinet Secretaries, Principal Secretaries and Parastatal chiefs take a 20 per cent pay cut to contain the spiralling wage bill.

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