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The mystery of unspent Covid-19 fund billions

Treasury CS Ukur Yatani explains pandemic spending

The Ministry of Health has not utilised a single coin from a Covid-19 emergency supplies fund set up by President Uhuru Kenyatta in March this year.

National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani told the National Assembly Health Committee that the government had so far received a total of Sh134 billion from bilateral and multilateral partners to fight the pandemic.

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