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Delayed funds to counties, a crude way to kill devolution

It is impossible to spend money released on the last day of the financial year. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

At about 6pm on June 30th, 2021, the last day of the financial year 2020/21, many counties received the bulk of the funds that have been outstanding from the National Treasury. This was a cruel joke on Kenyans by the otherwise affable National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani.

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