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The two women keeping a tight leash on Kenya's purse holders

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Auditor General Nancy Gathungu and controller of budget Margaret Nyakang'o. [File, Standard]

Last year, the Controller of Budget stunned the nation with reports that the National Treasury's budget for state employees' salaries was three times what the officers were paid.

Margaret Nyakang'o's revelation of 'budgeted corruption' in government was the first time Kenyans got a vivid picture of how the public sector wage bill is inflated to siphon taxpayers' funds from the exchequer.

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