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Kenya’s Finance Ministry has requested the parliament to increase the 2019/20 (July-June) budget by an extra 86.4 billion shillings ($844 million).
Documents submitted to parliament on Tuesday, said the ministry had asked parliament to cut recurrent expenditure by 5.6 billion shillings, but raise development expenditure by 85.5 billion shillings and add another 6.5 billion shillings to go to regional county governments.
The Supplementary Budget tabled in Parliament yesterday shows the Judiciary has lost Sh2.9 billion in the reviewed spending plans, which granted huge allocations for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project and the Health docket.
Nearly Sh29 billion has been set aside for SGR, whose construction has reached Suswa in Narok County, suggesting that the project might be extended.
Legislators emerged among the biggest losers in the Supplementary Budget after Yatani slashed their budgets by Sh8.5 billion.
He, however, increased the overall national spending plan by Sh80 billion from Sh3.08 trillion, meaning that he may have abandoned a promised austerity drive.