Kitui Central MP Makali Mulu says 2025 Finance Budget strategy by KK government to secure second term nothing about common mwanachi. Photo: Makali Mulu Facebook.
Kitui Central Member of Parliament (MP) Makali Mulu has faulted the 2025 Finance Bill as a strategy by the Kenya Kwanza to secure a second term, with nothing for common mwananchi to smile about.
Speaking during an interview on Wednesday morning, Mulu sai that projections of the 2025 Finance Bill has strained crucial sectors including the health and education while increasing the budget for the executive. According to the MP, the committee failed in its allocation of funds, with directing a big share to government coffers.
In any budget you will have the Executive pushing agendas to implement their manifesto and therefore moving more to the political side and getting a re-election. From my analysis, I think this budget is more of an Executive budget. Most of the programs will be supporting the government to get re-elected,” Mulu stated.
The National Assembly Budget and Appropriations Committee led by Kimani Kuru, MP Molo Constituency, allocated KSh 700.9 billion for education while boosting the national government’s funding to KSh 2.54 trillion and KSh 150 million to procure and service a social media tracking system.
According to Mulu, the committee should have centered their focus on allocation to the private sector and reviving the crumbling economic.
“Looking at the critical issues affecting the citizens, how much money has gone to the education sector? The money that touches the mwananchi alone is not much. Money benefiting mwananchi should be promoting a conducive environment for the private sector so that it thrives in this economy. If the private sector is doing well then it will employ more people and we will have more money in our pockets,” he further remarked.
Mulu stated that the money allocated to the presidency could be used to resolve the current stalemate in the health sector involving the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) workers, who want to be employed on permanent and pensionable terms that require KSh 8 billion, while the current allocation to the presidency is KSh 11 billion.
“The President and the Deputy President’s recurrent budget is KSh 11 billion and the money we require for UHC staff to be fully absorbed is Ksh.8 billion. We’ve provided about KSh 4 billion,” he stated.
