Kenyans are being asked to pay more taxes through the Finance Bill 2026, yet the 2026/27 Budget hides KSh 101.37 billion under a vague item called “Other Operating Expenses.” No programme. No purpose. No accountability.
Before taxing Kenyans another shilling, Parliament must clean up the budget. We cannot finance opacity with taxpayers’ sweat.
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There’s fiscal indiscipline, and then there’s what Kenya’s Finance Ministry (@KeTreasury) does - sneaking in a second Supplementary Budget just two weeks before the end of the financial year.
The Executive wants to raise spending by KES 18.24 billion ($140.8 million). Where that last-minute money is going?
🏛️ @StateHouseKenya: Requesting an extra KES 1 billion.
👤 The Deputy President: Seeking authorization for KES 200 million more.
🛡️ Internal Security Ministry: Demanding another KES 1.55 billion.
📚 Education Ministry (@EduMinKenya): Requesting an additional KES 1.5 billion—all of it earmarked for “Quality Assurance and Standards.”
This mismatch between spending forecasts and execution reality is nothing new. In 2022, the Treasury projected that the fiscal deficit for FY 25/26 would drop below 4%. Instead, it has ballooned to 6.4%, with next year’s forecast looking just as dismal at 5.5%.
With a track record this patchy, can Kenya plausibly hold onto the B3 credit rating upgrade it got from @moodysratings in January?
As David Rogovic told me, while that upgrade reflected "lower near-term default risk," the rating remains constrained by weak points impossible to ignore: a massive fiscal deficit, a persistent inability to rein in spending, and dangerously weak debt affordability.