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Budget Office stand-off unnecessary

Parliament approved the Supplementary Budget Estimates tabled by Uhuru Kenyatta a week after receiving them. No MP spotted any discrepancies in the estimates or in the Appropriation Bill presented by the Finance Minister.

This is partially understandable, given there were more than 26,000 line items to scrutinise in the estimates and that the errors identified by Mars Group/Partnership for Change activists, and brought to the House’s attention by Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanyara, were in 211 of these.

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