Treasury budget cuts, delayed payments derail road projects

Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury & Economic Planning Njuguna Ndung'u on May 17, 2023.  

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Road contractors are increasingly abandoning projects or going slow in works due to deep budget cuts and delayed disbursement of funds by the Treasury, the Auditor-General has revealed.

By the end of May 2024, the Treasury had only released Sh35 billion of the Sh88 billion budgeted for roads in June last year, just as the government slashed funding for hundreds of roads.

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