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Counties focus on boosting own revenue and post Covid-19 recovery in budget estimates

Kenyan MPs as Kenya's Finance Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani presents the Government Budget for the 2021/22 fiscal year inside the Parliament buildings in Nairobi, Kenya June 10, 2021. [Reuters, Monicah Mwangi]

County governments have focused on own revenue, as post Covid-19 recovery measures in health, transport and agriculture get the lion's share in budgetary allocations.

In budgetary proposals, Kisumu County Government plans to expand its locally-generated revenue to Sh1.3 billion.

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