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Kenya can't succeed with public budgets alone- CS Mbadi

National Treasury CS John Mbadi during the rollout of the e-GP system at the Treasury Building in Nairobi on August 28, 2025. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Due to the continuous shrinking of traditional ways of financing the budget, the National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has admitted that public budgets alone cannot finance Kenya’s economic transformation.

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