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My domestic budget flop

It is that time of the year when the fellow who holds the country’s purse on our behalf, otherwise called the Finance Minister, presents those mind boggling figures that are meant to make a groom’s life harder.

For a start, I’m not sure how one Robinson Githae can manage to balance Sh1.4 trillion (I get a headache merely thinking about the figure) to the penny while I’m having problems stretching my meagre coins to cover my household’s financial obligations for a month.

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