This comes days after MCAs passed amendments in the budget’s fiscal strategy paper. Last week on Thursday, ward reps passed major amendments in the county’s Sh10.1 billion budget for 2018-19. In a letter to speaker Joseph Kaberia dated April 23, after MCAs made the changes, Kiraitu urged them to reconsider their decision on the fiscal strategy paper for 2018-2019. However, the MCAs later passed the Fiscal Strategy paper for 2018- 2019 on Wednesday afternoon without the ammendments they had made on Thursday last week. “Budget is critical it is really not an events it is in that process we tried to come up with an agreement and they can admit that we clarified and explained so that we can come up with win win situation, “he said.

Source: The Star April 26, 2018 23:03 UTC