Public Money.
Budgets, borrowing, procurement, revenue and public spending.
Kenya Editors Guild Pushes for Transparency on Public Debt
Media Seeks to Crack the Vault on Spiraling Debt and High-Risk Financing By Anchor Writers NAIROBI — Public finance must no longer remain an obscure, technical maze shrouded in secrecy. That was the…
Editors Put Kenya’s Public Debt Accountability Under Spotlight
By Anchor Writers Kenya’s rapidly expanding public debt, now beyond the KSh13 trillion mark, has emerged as a major public-interest accountability issue. Today, Kenya Editors Guild Vice President Francis Openda (Pictured Below) challenged…
County Workers Stage Salary Parade Over Delayed Salaries
Governor Wavinya’s Govenment Awarded by Bajeti Hub 'for its commitment to transparency and accountability in Public Finance Management' By Anchor Writers Machakos County workers today flexed their muscles in a protest parade to…
Eight Machakos Unions Give Ultimatum Over Salary Arrears
UPDATE: August Salaries To be Paid Tomorrow, Says County Secretary By Anchor Writers Eight trade unions representing Machakos County Government employees have issued the administration a 24-hour ultimatum to address salary arrears, delayed…
County Budget Crisis Deepens as Speaker Exposes Illegal Spending Plans
By Martin Masai The Machakos County budget impasse has taken a new turn after County Assembly Speaker Anne Kiusya declared Governor Wavinya Ndeti’s memorandum on the Sh17.797 billion Appropriation Bill inadmissible and returned…
Waita: Wavinya Has Right to Reject Budget, not storm County Assembly
By Steff Ndei Machakos gubernatorial aspirant Mr. Nzioka Waita (Pictured below) has accused Governor Wavinya Ndeti of undermining constitutional order following Monday’s confrontation at the County Assembly, arguing that while the governor was…
How Assembly Deleted Wikwatyo Fund, MYS from Approved Budget
By Martin Masai Much as the Machakos County Assembly approved a Ksh17.797 billion budget for 2026/27, the fine print reveals a total eclipse of Governor Wavinya Ndeti's pet two programmes — Machakos Youth…
Your Budget Vote is Devilish, Wavinya Tells Assembly
Governor Blows Hot and Cold Over Elephant in the Room: The Mutanu Question By Anchor Writer The war between Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti (Pictured below) and the County Assembly has escalated, with the…
Assembly Approves Half of Sh 17.8b Budget Amid Mutanu Dilemma
By Anchor Writers The Machakos County Assembly today approved half of the county's proposed Sh17.797 billion budget for the 2026/2027 financial year. Yet, the approval provides a temporary financial lifeline to the county…
Budget Crisis Deepens as Assembly Rejects Mutanu, Demands her Removal
By Martin Masai The constitutional standoff between Governor Wavinya Ndeti and the Machakos County Assembly has escalated after Speaker Anne Kiusya formally declared that the Assembly no longer recognizes Catherine Mutanu Raphael as…
Civil Society Gives Assembly, Executive, 24Hrs to End Budget Stalemate
By Anchor Writers The civil society organisations also cited the Constitution, the County Governments Act and the Public Finance Management Act, arguing that the County Assembly has a constitutional duty to consider and…
Why Wavinya’s Budget is Stuck at County Assembly
Machakos Majority Leader Accuses Nzioka Waita of Engineering Budget Committee Stalemate By Anchor Writers The political standoff over the passage of Machakos County's 2026/27 Budget has taken a dramatic turn after Majority Leader…
Kitui MCAs Scrutinize Budget, Machakos Mired in Power Struggles
By Anchor Writers An Assembly Sectoral Committee in session today to interrogate budget proposals. Below, Kitui Finance CECM Peter Kilonzo during the exercise. While the Machakos County Assembly remains consumed by a bitter…
Wavinya Moves to End Matatu Row Amid Graft Claims
By Lilian Katheke Calm has returned to the Machakos Bus Park after Governor Wavinya Ndeti intervened in a dispute that had prompted matatu operators to boycott the facility over the controversial allocation of…
‘I Won’t Commit An Illegal Budget’,Kitui Speaker Tells Gov. Malombe
GOVERNANCE Speaker Kinengo Draws the Line as Budget Standoff Deepens: "Government Cannot Function Through Illegalities" By Martin Masai A major showdown between the Kitui County Assembly and Governor Julius Malombe's administration has escalated…
Wavinya’s Budget Agenda Hits Wall in New Stalemate
By Martin Masai Governor Wavinya Ndeti's administration is facing its most formidable political challenge yet after a widening standoff with the Machakos County Assembly left critical budget business hanging in the balance. Governor…
Questions Over Cost, Intent of Wavinya’s Lower Cadre Staff ‘Training’
By Anchor Writers Machakos County’s ongoing low cadre staff training programme, billed as a transformative initiative to strengthen public service delivery, is increasingly drawing scrutiny over its cost, structure, and underlying intent. The…