The controller of budget report has revealed counties that did not spend any finances disbursed to them on development during the first quarter of the 2023/2024 financial year.
The report on budget implementation reveals that governors of these counties spent all the money disbursed to them on salaries and other recurrent expenditures in the July to September months of the current financial year.
The list includes Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja, Wavinya Ndeti of Machakos County, Gideon Mung’aro (Kilifi), Cecily Mbarire (Embu), and Ahmed Abdullahi (Wajir).
There is also Governor Jonathan Lelelit (Samburu), Simon Kachapin (West Pokot), Jeremiah Lomorukai (Turkana), Eric Mutai (Kericho), and Gladys Wanga (Homa Bay).
The report also revealed that during the said period, ‘counties spent Ksh 6.92 billion on development activities, representing an absorption rate of 3.7 percent of the annual development budget of Ksh 188.13 billion.’
In total, counties spent Ksh 67.5 billion and only Ksh 6.92 billion went to development, while Ksh 41.8 billion was spent on salaries and Ksh 18.8 on operations in the three months.
Some counties like Nakuru, Makueni, and Bungoma spend less than one percent of their budgets on development.
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