Budget: Uhuru pumps billions to recover millions in graft war

National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich when he presented the Budget estimates last week. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s second term in office has been characterised by his zeal and commitment to fighting graft. And the fight against this debilitating form of cancer has not come cheap.

Since he took office for his final term, Kenyatta’s government has over the course of two budgets allocated more than 38 billion shillings in the war against corruption.