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Thursday, June 10, 1999
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VP, Biwott named in Sh850m scandal
Vice-President George Saitoti and Cabinet Minister Nicholas Biwott exerted undue pressure to have Sh850 million of public money released to a project that failed to get off the ground, an official report has revealed.
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Budget to overshoot last year's by Sh47b
This year's Budget will overshoot last year's by more than Sh47 billion, estimates
tabled in Parliament yesterday indicate. The entire Budget Finance Minister Francis
Masakhalia will be asking Parliament to approve this afternoon amounts to
Sh298.26 billion, an increase from Sh251.48 billion last year.
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PAC censures Lands boss over allocations
The Public Accounts Committee has ordered the Commissioner of Lands, Mr Wilson Gachanja, to desist from alienating public land and allocating it to private developers without undertaking the necessary evaluation of the needs of the allottees.
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Govt to re-introduce contentious teacher's Bill in House
The government yesterday declared it had closed debate on the contentious teachers' salary increment.
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Vice President Prof George Saitoti (left) and Cabinet Minister Nicholas Biwott. A report of the Public Accounts Committee has named the two in a failed soya bean project in which Sh850 million of public funds was squandered.
(Pic: Nation Graphics)
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