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Kirinyaga Scores Zero in Latest County Ranking
Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru in the Senate During her impeachment hearing in June 2020.
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Kirinyaga has been highlighted among the counties with the lowest transparency when it comes to making their budgets public, in a recent report.
The survey titled the
County Budget Transparency Survey 2020, stated that the county had an index of zero as it did not publish any budget document.
Also ranking low were the counties of Narok, Taita Taveta, and Wajir in the report by the International Budget Partnership Kenya (IBP Kenya).
On the other hand, West Pokot County was ranked the best with an index of 73 out of 100 points, having published all the assessed budget documents. Laikipia county was second with 71 points.
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Ousted Nairobi governor wrong to say Kenya president has borrowed ‘over KSh8 trillion in eight years’
Following a cooling of relations between former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko and president Uhuru Kenyatta, Sonko took to social media to list his own achievements and the president’s flaws. He however inflated public debt.
Published on 26 January 2021
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Analysts say Kenya’s level of public debt is concerning, but data shows it s not over KSh8 trillion as Sonko claimed on social media.
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Nairobi ex-governor Mike Sonko (January 2021)
Sonko took to Facebook and Twitter to claim Kenyatta’s administration has borrowed over KSh8 trillion since 2013.