By JAMES KARIUKIMore by this AuthorContractors and suppliers owed over Sh100 billion by county governments could finally get paid after the National Treasury waded into the pending bills issue. “We notify all suppliers/contractors of goods, services and works with outstanding claims as at June 30,2018 to present their claims to the County Executive Committee-Finance at their respective county governments by December 31,” it said. The new directive risks throwing into disarray ongoing works by audit teams formed within county governments to scrutinise the payments mostly associated with past regimes. In an earlier dispatch, Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich blamed new governors for stalling settlement of the bills incurred during the tenure of former governors. The banks gave out loans on the strength of local purchase orders given out to SMEs to provide various goods and services to county governments only to wait for long to be repaid.

Source: Daily Nation December 18, 2018 18:22 UTC