Seven State departments exhaust full-year budgets in nine months

Seven State departments exhausted their full-year recurrent budget allocations in less than nine months, prompting the Treasury to seek an additional Sh206.12 billion for government operations. Total recurrent expenditure rose 18.16 percent year-on-year to Sh1.17 trillion. Notably, the State Department for Special Programmes saw its allocation increase from Sh488 million to Sh13.8 billion due to climate-related emergency spending.