This archive report was first published on 9 July 2020.
According to a report by the Controller of Budget, Nairobi County could have spent more than Sh600 million on ghost development projects in the first six months of the 2019/2020 financial year.
Published on July 9, 2020, the report highlights a worrying trend in the county's budget implementation, where Sh632.1 million was spent as development expenditure without a clear list of implemented projects.
As per the report, the county's development expenditure of Sh632.1 million represented 5.6 per cent of the annual development budget of Sh11.27 billion.
Interestingly, the county government's expenditure on domestic travel more than doubled during the same period, hitting Sh337.9 million, an increase of 114.7 per cent from Sh157.35 million in the first half of 2018/2019.
Controller of Budget Ms Margaret Nyakang'o has called upon the County Treasury to formulate strategies to enhance revenue collection, control expenditure on non-core areas, and prepare project implementation status reports on a quarterly basis.
On a positive note, the county government was able to reduce its expenditure on compensation to employees by 15.6 per cent.
