With an insensitive budget, we are widening economic inequality

Treasury CS Henry Rotich addresses a press conference after reading the 2018-2019 Budget at Parliament buildings on June 14, 2018. [Boniface Okendo/Standard]

The Jubilee government has just unveiled a Sh3 trillion budget for 2018-2019. This is the biggest sign yet of burying our heads in the sand. 

It is a sign of the unbridled greed that thrives in the ruling class, especially since at least half of the budget--Sh1.5 trillion--will be lost in looting, or wasted in living large. The regime’s own estimates are that a third of our budget is stolen each year.