More by this AuthorTharaka-Nithi residents have raised question about the county's construction of 56 dispensaries at the cost of nearly Sh200 million. Locals have claimed the dispensaries are too small to have cost Sh3.5 million each. John Mutegi, a resident of Nkondi division, said it was unlikely that most of the newly built dispensaries, which have two or three rooms, could have cost Sh3.5 million as purported by the government. On the contrary, he said, classrooms built by Tharaka MP Mburi Muiru using Constituency Development Funds cost only Sh500,000 each and are bigger than the dispensaries. County health executive Walter Mugambi said the dispensaries cost an average of Sh3.5 million each, noting that some have four rooms, staff quarters and an ablution block.

Source: Daily Nation August 26, 2016 12:18 UTC