At least 18 public entities, including the State Department for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (Asals) and Regional Development, Immigration, Interior and National Administration, National Intelligence Service, and State House, blew their budgets by a combined Sh52.13 billion in the first half of the current financial year, raising questions about the state's austerity plans.
New data by the National Treasury shows that though the government’s overall recurrent spending for the half year dropped by 7.60 percent to Sh746 billion compared to the previous year, some public agencies still burst their budgets.
