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Senator says change in law not meant to cripple counties

NAIROBI, KENYA: Senators on Wednesday clarified that they were not trying to cripple county governments in their proposal to cap the recurrent expenditure.

They said their proposed change to the Public Finance Management Act was done at the behest of the Budget and Appropriations Committee which was worried that the bulk of the money to the counties was being spent on operation costs, and not on development.

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