This year’s Budget must get it right on our health docket

Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Planning Hon. Amb. Ukur Yatani addresing the press during the launch of Kenya's first comprehensive insurance cover for Civil Servants and National Youth Service [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

June 10 approaches with the speed of the Special Gauge Railway. Given the importance of this year’s Budget Day, it is worrying that the Treasury failed to effectively engage citizens.

The choices that will be presented by the Treasury Cabinet Secretary to the National Assembly have never mattered so much to the nation. Without a Covid-19 responsive budget, we will not press past current cycles of lockdowns, pandemic and economic recession.