The Government of Kenya recently, through the Treasury Cabinet secretary announced plans to adopt a zero-based budgeting (ZBB) technique for the 2025-26 financial year to streamline the management of public expenditure.
This decision came amid public scrutiny that put the government on the spot for potential misuse of national revenue through extravagant and unnecessary spending, while we have annual tax increments to fund the budget economic circumstances in subsequent years to the base year resulting in insufficient appropriations, unforeseen expenditures and unnecessary spending, which would have been prevented if actual budgets were made.
