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Last week, Murang’a county governor Mwangi Wa Iria stated that his county government had allocated 350 million shillings for the 35 wards to implement minor development projects. Speaking during a county function, the governor said that 10 million shillings had been given to each ward to implement minor development project at the ward level.
The following day, Members of the County Assembly, Murang’a County denied receiving 10 million each from the county government. Led by the assembly’s majority leader, Peter Kihungi, the MCA’s refuted the claim adding that they only learnt of it through the media.
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