Uhuru Kenyatta

The budget allocation for the purchase of new cars for Kenya's top three government offices has shot up eight times.

Next year, we will bring it further down so that, by the third year, we have a recurrent budget surplus,” said Dr Ruto. State House Nairobi, which had initially been allocated only Sh10 million, was added Sh35 million in the latest changes. However, the exclusion of the Prime CS only cuts the expenditure by 10 percent, or Sh80 million. In total, the budget for the purchase of new cars for all the State bodies in the current financial year ending June more than doubled to Sh2.06 billion from Sh810.3 million that had been allocated in the original budget, with the three offices accounting for more than 40 percent of the budget. The Office of the President and Cabinet Secretaries also received an additional Sh154 million for cars, while retired President Kenyatta has been allocated Sh140 million for a fleet of cars in his retirement. In the budget estimates for the Financial Year 2022/23, the three offices had been allocated Sh100.8 million, though the office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary had not been catered for.