Why MPs bear huge blame for Kenya’s debt problems

Parliament Building. Before the budget was read, a stalemate played out between the National Assembly and the Senate over the Division of Revenue Allocation Bill 2019. [Standard]

Henry Rotich may be heading the powerful Treasury docket in the public eye, but his influence as the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the country’s coffers remains weak.

Unlike his predecessors, most of Treasury’s powers were transferred to Parliament in the advent of the new Constitution.