Counties pay Sh7bn to staff outside payroll, CoB reveals

The Controller of Budget (CoB) has questioned the expenditure of Sh7.06 billion by county governments outside of the government payroll system in the six months to December 2023.

In her report on the implementation of the 2023/24 budget by the 47 counties in the half-year, CoB Margaret Nyakang’o warned that the use of the manual payroll is a loophole for theft of public funds.