The country’s education sector will have the biggest slice of the Sh2.76 trillion government expenditure budget for the 2019/20 financial year. The breakdown shows President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government commitment to both free secondary and primary education, allocating Sh59.4 and Sh13.4 billion to the two initiatives respectively. The sector had requested for Sh473.7 billion, up from Sh442.3 billion allocated in the ongoing financial year. The Jubilee government plans to spend Sh172 billion on infrastructure improvement across the 47 counties. This is Sh14 billion less than the Sh186 billion requested by the state Department of Transport headed by James Macharia for the next financial year.

Source: The Star May 02, 2019 03:56 UTC