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City Hall ‘spent Sh600m on ghost projects’

City Hall, Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP

What you need to know:

  • During the period under review, the county government’s expenditure on domestic travel more than doubled compared to the same period in the financial year ending June 30, 2019.
  • The report showed that the domestic travel expenditure in the first six months hit Sh337.9 million, an increase of 114.7 per cent from Sh157.35 million in the first half of 2018/2019.

Nairobi County could have spent more than Sh600 million on ghost development projects in the first six months of the just-ended financial year.

The revelation is contained in a report by the Controller of Budget on county governments budget implementation review for the first half of the 2019/2020 financial year.