Budget Office asks CS Henry Rotich to raid cash-rich betting industry

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich will present the 2017/2018 Budget on March 30, 2017. [PHOTO:WILBERFORCE OKWIRI/ STANDARD

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich will on Thursday, March 30 read Kenya’s national budget amid dim warnings of an economic slowdown in an election year.

It will be the Jubilee administration’s final budget for their first term, and it is these allocations that are expected to run the country until June next year when the next budget is read. The reading of the budget comes earlier than the traditional June date because the country is headed to the polls in August.