Slightly over one year and five months since the current administration took office in Nairobi, the County has not spent a shilling in development projects.
This is according to the consolidated County budget implementation review report for the first quarter of the Financial year 2023/24 despite the fact Sh14 billion was allocated for the purpose.
According to the report by the controller of budget Margaret Nyakango, Nairobi County did not report any expenditure on development programmes in the first quarter of FY 2023/24.
She says that Nairobi County did not report any expenditure on development programmes in the first quarter of FY 2023/24.
During the period, the report says the County spent Sh176 million on domestic travels alone in four months.
The controller of budget in the report estimated that the Members of County Assembly spent Sh94.92 while the executive spent Sh78.88 million.
On foreign travels the county spent Sh11.99 million with the executive spending Sh3.05 million and the MCAs Sh8.94 million.
Similarly, the County Assembly spent Sh139.82 million on employee compensation and Sh294.98 million on operations and maintenance
Nyakang’o noted that the details of expenditures on foreign travel were not provided by the County government.
Moreover, at the end of the first quarter, there was no approved exchequer request for foreign travel for both the County Assembly and the County Executive.
Narok Governor Patrick Ole Ntutu was listed as the top County boss who spent Sh1.3 billion on development projects.
Bomet County under the leadership of Governor Hillary Barchok was also listed as the second with seventeen per cent of the allocation that went into the development projects.
