In its latest report — "Unpacking the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 2020/2021" — released this month, the PBO notes that the Treasury has allocated money for a second time to projects that had been finalised and their completion certificates issued.
But the project has received an allocation of Sh100 million in the 2020/21 budget that starts in July.
The one-stop border post in Lunga Lunga will receive Sh20 million; the rehabilitation of the Webuye-Kitale road Sh50 million; the rehabilitation the Majiya Chumvi-Bachuma Gate road Sh10 million, and the interchanges in Nyahururu, Njoro, and Mau Summit turn-offs will get Sh10 million.
It is not clear why the Treasury would chose to pay little amounts like Sh5 million instead of clearing one big project before moving to others as has been recommended in multiple reports.
The Jubilee administration has been pumping billions of shillings into ambitious infrastructure projects and, even when faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, would rather slash money from the health and water budgets than touch the infrastructure docket.
