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Budget focuses on strategic sectors to develop country

twitter@MachelWaikenda

National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich presented the Jubilee Alliance’s second trillion-shilling Budget statement on Thursday.  This Budget will serve as the Government’s national economic policy blueprint for the next financial year. But the budget policy as presented is a mere plan — a projection of things to come.  It is a statement of milestones and possible cost of getting the country’s economy from one milestone to another. However, how well it will be implemented will be the subject of debate in the next 12 months.

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