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Gideon Moi seeks Senate to stop wasteful spending in counties

Baringo Senator Gideon Moi joins Kagan-Kochia dancers in Homabay town. [Denish Ochieng/Standard]

Baringo Senator Gideon Moi has sought Parliament's intervention to address twisted expenditure in some counties. The counties in focus were found to use most of their money to pay salaries and other recurrent expenditure.

Through a memo to the Senate, Mr Moi has requested a statement on why the recurrent budgets for the financial year ended June 30 shot up sharply in many of the regional governments.

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