Roads spending drops to record low in President Ruto’s policy shift

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Motorists drive through a bad road along Kibera Drive in Nairobi on January 22, 2024. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL | NMG

Public investment in roads, power generation plants and transmission lines has been the hardest hit by the William Ruto administration’s sharp development budget cuts, official data shows.

Expenditure on road and energy projects from the government’s main account hit the lowest levels in the first half of the current financial year since the Treasury started publishing the exchequer data a decade ago.

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