We are in the middle of the season of the usual ritual of political manifestos. The Azimio coalition has come up with pledges that are bound to cost Kenya hundreds of billions of shilling in new spending annually.
But where is the fiscal space? Azimio is counting on reaping dividends from an aggressive anti-corruption programme, bold procurement reforms and a raft of other institutional reforms — the most ambitious of which is a plan to establish an Office of Management of the Budget, a similar office in the White House in the US.
