Inside President Ruto's meeting with Cabinet

President William Ruto with DP Gachagua (right) and various Cabinet Secretaries after a meeting at State House, Nairobi on July 4, 2024. [PCS]

Finance Bill 2024

On the withdrawn Finance Bill, President Ruto said the National Treasury is reorganising the budget to accommodate the new reality.

This will include substantial cutting down of budgets to "balance between what to be implemented and what can wait", and ensuring that key national programmes are not affected.

"Our plan is good and solid and, in the fullness of time, we shall be vindicated," President Ruto said.

On other agendas, the Cabinet discussed the implementation of the Kenya Urban Improvement Project in the Nairobi Metropolitan Area.

This includes the phased-out upgrade of the 163 km Nairobi Commuter Rail. The first phase of the upgrade will comprise improving the 58km commuter rail between the Nairobi Central Railway Station and Thika.

The project will also include the acquisition of new locomotives and the improvement of non-motorised transport infrastructure, and feeder roads along the Nairobi Commuter Rail network.