nairobi county budget Stories
County records show fire inspection fees plunged by 90 per cent to Sh5.3 million, while market rates fell 11.6 per cent to Sh189.37 million.
The Sh632.3 billion expenditure on interest payments between July 2024 and June 2025 eclipsed the Sh545.8 billion allocated to all development project...
The CoB report concedes with a petition filed in the National Assembly by a lobby group requesting an audit of the department’s public fund utilisatio...
So far, many procuring entities have been unable to upload their budgets and procurement plans, stalling procurement across ministries and agencies.
The latest national budget review report by the Office of the Controller of Budget reveals that as of June 30, 2025, Kenya’s total public debt stood a...
The most expensive single trip was a 15-day mission by 40 officials from the State Department for Labour and Skills Development to attend the Internat...
Kenya Bora Tuitakayo claims the city has been plagued by misuse of public funds since September 2022, leaving residents with poor services and mountin...
The Ministry of Roads and Transport is the largest contributor to the accumulated fines, with penalties totalling Sh21.3 billion on top of its pending...
The State Department for Basic Education’s countrywide initiative to construct junior secondary classrooms and integrated resource centres has also se...
This reliance has forced the National Treasury to roll over obligations repeatedly, creating a cycle where new borrowing is primarily used to pay off...
CoB Margaret Nyakang’o said the unpaid bills are causing “liquidity challenges, potential business closures, job losses, and increased government expe...
Figures released by the Controller of Budget (CoB) show that fines and interest linked to pending bills increased to Sh25.28 billion from Sh21.58 bill...
The report shows the Treasury made three approvals totalling Sh3.6 billion to cover domestic travel, hospitality supplies, fuel, and vehicle maintenan...
The decision follows a petition filed by civil society groups challenging the controversial Sh1.2 billion church project.
The petitioners allege that, despite claims that the project is being funded privately by well-wishers, including President Ruto himself, public resou...
The scrutiny comes as the commission prepares to spend nearly Sh1 billion on 23 pending by-elections, covering six National Assembly seats, one Senate...
The move is aimed at eliminating ghost workers and bringing sanity to county wage bills, which have been consuming unsustainable portions of revenues.
Eighteen counties had their budget documents returned for failing to link allocations to specific projects, disguising recurrent expenses as developme...
The latest Kenya Market Update report by real estate consultancy Knight Frank shows that the hospitality industry, which had been buoyed by post-pande...
Peter Ingollan Ekunyuk, Chair of the County Public Service Board, led the inaugural round of suitability interviews for the directorates of Economic P...
The figure accounts for 29 per cent of the county’s total pending legal fees of Sh21.4 billion, which in turn represents 11 per cent of the total pend...
The directive is part of the World Bank-funded Kenya Devolution Support Program (KDSP) II, which has imposed strict conditions on counties to reduce d...
Erastus Ethekon said the commission is concerned about rising political activity and aims to define clear campaign timelines to ensure fairness and or...
Sponsored through the Senate, the Bill seeks to amend various county public finance laws to align them with the national framework established under t...
The tender, which has since been cancelled without explanation, was limited to Chinese contractors or consortia led by Chinese firms, sparking accusat...
The MCAs warned that the claims were politically instigated and meant to derail development and destabilise governance in Isiolo
The Commission said it used the original party list submitted by ODM in July 2022 and followed the required order of gender and priority to arrive at...
Two months into the new financial year, only 15 county governments have submitted their budgets, and of these, only Nairobi and Kisii have received fu...
The changes, communicated on Tuesday by National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula, were part of a motion tabled by the Committee on Selection, which...
The Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee, in a report tabled in the National Assembly, noted that the Controller of Budget, Auditor Gener...
