Murang’a county ranked the best in the utilization of development money at 426.7 million out of the Sh3.1billion that had been allocated.
In the runners up was Kisumu and Narok the third after spending 393.7 million and 164.3 million respectively.
In the period between July and September in the financial year 2020/2021,the Controller of Budget Dr Margaret Nyakango, other 25 counties spent a total of 2.3billion out of the allocation of Sh159.3 billion.
Other 22 counties registered nil expenditure in development over what was blamed on delay by the national treasury in the release of funds to the counties.
The stalement in the Senate has also been blamed in the delay to remit to resources.
The report reflected an overall drop in the expenditure as compared to the same duration in financial year 2019/2020.
The controller of budget blamed the poor relationship between the county governments and the assemblies to have delayed the release of the funds to facilitate development.
Counties of Wajir, Kitui, Mandera lagged behind in the utilization of the development kitty due lack of approval of the budgets by the county assemblies.
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