Treasury CS Rotich dispenses bitter pill for cash-strapped economy

2018 budget Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Planning, Mr. Henry Rotich at treasury with the budget briefcase at the treasury building on 14th June 2018. [David Gichuru, Standard]

It will be the toughest year for Kenyans after Treasury slapped the poor and raided the rich with wide ranging taxes to fund its ambitious budget.

Almost no one will be spared in the new tax measures that have revealed the soft underbelly of a government desperate and short of cash.