President William Ruto and his Tanzania counterpart Samia Suluhu. Nation further reported that the National Assembly's Budget and Appropriations Committee has also allocated KSh 301 million for state protocol and utilities. Ruto's office had also requested KSh 2 billion for the utilities, which include cleaning, transport, fuel and maintenance of KSh 500 million, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development at KSh 100 million, African Union at KSh 150 million, among others. It was established that the Executive Office of the President in the period through January spent KSh 9.09 billion against the full-year estimate of KSh 8.64 billion. As earlier reported, Azimio leader Raila Odinga told Ruto that he has only two options regarding the Finance Bill 2023.

Source: Daily Nation May 29, 2023 10:20 UTC