MPs set a new travel spending record at Sh3bn

Members of Parliament spent a whopping Sh3 billion on local and foreign travel in the fiscal year ending June.

That figure set a new record for a line of expenditure over which members of the county assemblies (MCAs) have come under intense public pressure in the past couple of months.

Controller of Budget Agnes Odhiambo says in her latest review of national government spending in the past financial year that the legislators used Sh2.4 billion for local travel and an additional Sh632.4 million for foreign travel.

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