Government Offices Have Defied Austerity Drive To Raise Expenditure On Salaries And Allowances By 62 Percent To 315 Billion Shillings In Nine Months To March. Data By The Controller Of Budgets Shows This Was A 121.1 Shillings Billion Rise From The 194.6 Billion Shillings Spent By The 71 Government Ministries, Departments And Agencies In A Similar Period The Previous Year.