Top State officials spend Sh6.4bn on overseas trips

Treasury cabinet secretary Ukur Yatani. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Spending on government officials’ overseas trips nearly doubled in the year to June to Sh6.4 billion, defying an austerity drive to curb non-essential expenditure.

The Controller of Budget (CoB) report shows that more than 90 percent of ministries and other state-backed agencies like Parliament increased their foreign travel spend after blowing Sh3.6 billion in the year to June 2017.

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