Why State seems in a rush to blow away billions in costly getaways

Planning Principal Secretary Julius Muia addresses the press after a vision 2030 Implementing agencies retreat in a Mombasa hotel on Friday. (Omondi Onyango, Standard)

Ministries and other taxpayer-funded entities are on a spending spree in an attempt to exhaust the money allocated to them this financial year.

In a bid to beat the June 30 close of the financial year and avoid budgets cuts in subsequent financial years, many of the ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) have descended on posh hotels in resort towns to gobble away their remnant funds.