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The CoB warned that the government’s appetite for non-essential expenditure like travel and inflated allowances is worsening the country’s budget defi...
Among the key programmes without funding are the school feeding programme, loans for higher education students, free education in public schools, fert...
The difference in the proposed figures has revived a familiar tug-of-war between the two Houses, potentially delaying the budget process and raising f...
The National Assembly's Departmental Committee on Education proposed this reallocation, which will draw from recurrent capitation funds allocated to j...
The reallocation plan includes Sh3 billion from secondary schools, Sh2 billion from junior schools, and Sh900 million from primary schools.
The proposed facelift budget for Kenya’s foreign missions totals nearly Sh2.35 billion, a move that signals a partial reinstatement of a scrapped allo...
Recently, Mbadi failed to appear before the Senate Finance and Budget Committee, choosing instead to attend a political rally in Migori County alongsi...
According to Thakar, the antidote to lifestyle creep is developing a disciplined financial mindset focused on delayed gratification and prioritising l...
Mbadi said starting next year, the Ministry of Education will introduce a differentiated model for charging examination fees, where only learners from...
Although more counties are releasing additional budget reports, the quality and comprehensiveness of these reports are not keeping pace.
BAC Chairperson Samuel Atandi announced this as the committee began receiving reports from departmental committee chairpersons on the scrutiny of budg...
The budget will cover the 2025/26 financial year and aims to address economic recovery, the cost of living, job creation, and the government’s develop...
Koskei also suspended “any ongoing recruitment processes of staff in any cadre,” and blocked approval or implementation of any new human resource poli...
According to the Social Protection department, the funds have been reduced from Sh1.044 billion to Sh940 million for the 2025/2026 financial year.
National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi revealed that many State agencies have been holding back billions by allocating surplus funds to planne...
External debt during the same period rose marginally by Sh70 billion to Sh5.23 trillion.
In addition, payments totalling Sh78.94 billion covering March to May are still delayed.
The Deputy President’s office had been allocated Sh2.9 billion for the financial year, down from the Sh3.4 billion proposed in the Budget Policy State...
Knut boss Oyuu warned that education reforms underway, particularly the transition to the Competency Based Education, risk collapsing without adequate...
FKE Executive Director Jacqueline Mugo said many firms in the region have shut down because of high operating costs, causing about 5,000 people to los...
The majority of the residents emphasised the need to prioritise the construction of a mega dam to harvest rain and drilling of boreholes to cushion th...
IG of Police Kanja pointed out that mobility, the establishment of a police hospital in Mbagathi, and the modernisation of police equipment will suffe...
Ouko criticised the system’s sluggishness and called for an urgent overhaul in the way judicial processes are conducted.
The Judiciary, the State Departments for Economic Planning, Social Protection, Irrigation, and Mining are among the MDAs cited for failing to provide...
The disbandment is part of a broader government plan to align state functions with the 2010 Constitution, which introduced devolution and rendered som...
The latest budget allocation, part of a larger Sh119.6 billion for the housing department, includes both recurrent and development costs.
The survey reveals that most of the funds have been channelled toward improving trunk and primary roads, upgrading secondary and minor roads, and main...
The borrowing was made possible by the Treasury's failure to submit revenue estimates to the National Assembly alongside expenditure estimates for the...
The increase comes in the wake of the December 2024 gazettement that formalised the transfer of additional functions from the national to county gover...
