
NATIONAL Treasury CS John Mbadi presented the budget highlights and revenue raising measures to Parliament for the year financial year 2025-26 last Thursday.
The CS spoke of a wide range of priorities that will be funded in the Sh4.3 trillion budget. This included focus areas in health, education, affordable housing, social protection programmes such as Inua Jamii, allocation to counties and wider funding for Bottom-Up Economic Empowerment programmes.
However, there are several important priorities and issues that were missing from his speech.