By JUSTUS WANGAMore by this AuthorCabinet on Thursday approved Sh10 billion budget to facilitate preparation for the repeat presidential election now slated for October 26. “Cabinet today approved an allocation of Sh10 billion to cover these repeat Presidential elections. This allocation was based on a proposed budget submitted by the electoral agency IEBC,” a dispatch by the State House Spokesperson Manoah Esipisu read. Earlier, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich had projected that the election would cost more than Sh15 billion when ‘related activities, largely security measures, are factored in’. The Cabinet at the same time approved a further Sh25 billion towards free secondary education starting January.

Source: Daily Nation September 21, 2017 17:48 UTC