Tag: Treasury CS

2021 budget: List of essential items whose price will increase

As Treasury boss Ukur Yattani seeks to increase government revenue for the 2021/2022 fiscal year, the move is set to affect the price of essential commodities should the National Assembly okay the proposals.  Among the essential products whose costs are set to increase based on the Budget Statement Policy (BPS) include bread, motorcycles, imported jewelry, […]

Yatani: Slowdown in sector services hurt Kenya economic growth in 2019

Kenya’s economy expanded at a slower pace of 5.4 percent last year, down from 6.3 percent in 2018, Treasury CS Ukur Yatani announced.

The rise and fall of Henry Rotich

By Fred Aminga If there is one man who would love to wish away the past six years, it must be Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich. Rotich’s tenure at the Treasury has been marred by graft allegations and as public coffers were repeatedly fleeced through the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) domiciled at his […]