Major changes in mini-budget as Rotich aligns spending to Big Four

National Treasury CS Henry Rotich and his PS Dr Kamau Thugge during their meeting with Senate Assembly Finance and Budget Committee on the proposed amendment on County allocation of revenue at County hall, Nairobi. [Photo by Boniface Okendo/Standard]

The National Treasury has slashed spending plans by Sh17 billion in new austerity measures.

Vocational training programmes are the greatest losers in the budget revisions, after more than Sh3 billion was moved from the training institutions in a supplementary budget tabled in the National Assembly yesterday evening.