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How Treasury ministry abused supreme law provision to tap billions for deals

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CS Treasury Njuguna Ndungu. [File, Standard]

The National Treasury may have abused its powers to spend public funds before getting parliamentary approval to significantly increase allocations to the Petroleum ministry, giving it access to funds that may have been used to finance the controversial Sh17 billion diesel cargo.

The ministry received a substantial budgetary increase in the middle of implementation of the 2022/23 budget without parliamentary approval that is now raising eyebrows.

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