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Relief as counties settle Sh10.5bn bills

Nairobi, March 6 -- County governments settled Sh10.5 billion pending bills in the six months ended December 2023, handing relief to businesses strained by cash flow. At least 43 counties reported sp... Read More


State risks losing Sh60m in cheap gas project

Nairobi, March 6 -- At least Sh60 million pumped by the government into the low-cost cooking gas project may have been lost, Auditor General Nancy Gathungu has said, citing faulty cylinders supplied f... Read More


Puzzle of counties running 1,400 illegal bank accounts

Nairobi, March 1 -- County governments are operating more than 1,400 accounts in Kenyan commercial banks, in breach of the law that requires them to hold their cash at the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).... Read More


34pc of households farm on less than one acre land

Nairobi, Feb. 28 -- More than a third of the 6.4 million farmer households in Kenya produce food and cash crops on less than one acre of land, a new Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) report s... Read More


How Ruto deal with Gulf oil firms inflated pump prices

Nairobi, Feb. 27 -- Consumers in Kenya and neighbouring countries paid billions of shillings in additional cost of petroleum products under the government-to-government (G-to-G) oil deal that inflated... Read More


Rai Cement unremitted levy fees hits Sh11m

Nairobi, Feb. 27 -- Rai Cement company failed to pay Sh3.9 million levy fees in the financial year ended June 2023, an audit has revealed, pushing its total unremitted dues over the years to Sh10.7 mi... Read More


Lawyers' windfall as IEBC spends Sh4bn on poll suits

Nairobi, Feb. 23 -- The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) spent more than Sh4 billion fighting legal battles from the 2022 General Election, a new report by the Auditor-General of... Read More


Auditor flags Sh10m spent on curtains for Rigathi Gachagua's office

Nairobi, Feb. 23 -- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's office purchased curtains worth Sh10.27 million last year, even as he joined his boss in insisting that austerity measures were inevitable in th... Read More


State has little control over e-Citizen portal: Auditor General

Nairobi, Feb. 22 -- The State has little control over the e-Citizen self-service and payment portal, Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu has said, warning that this could compromise accountability of the b... Read More


Pain as unpaid tax refund claims hit Sh16 billion

Nairobi, Feb. 22 -- The government accumulated an extra Sh4 billion in tax refund claims by businesses in the six months between May and October 2023, pushing the overall unpaid amount to Sh16.3 billi... Read More