City Hall did not spend even a single shilling on development for three months between July and September last year, a Controller of Budget (CoB) report has revealed. This is despite the county government having budgeted for Sh6.4 billion as development expenditure out of the total Sh31.4 billion annual budget for the financial year ending June 30, 2021. Further, City Hall spent Sh1.31 billion during the period under review even though the Exchequer released only Sh1.25 billion from the County Revenue Fund (CRF) account for the period under review. During the same period, City Hall spent Sh1.31 billion on recurrent programmes representing 104.9 percent of the total funds released from the CRF account. Delay in approval of budget the county was running on Vote on Account during the reporting period which affected implementation of development programmes programme,” stated the report.

Source: Daily Nation January 12, 2021 18:42 UTC