The National Treasury presented the KSh4.2 trillion budget for the 2025/2026 financial year, with education, security and infrastructure sectors being some of the biggest beneficiaries.
While presenting the budget before the National Assembly on Thursday, June 12, Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi said the 2025/2026 budget aims to stimulate sustainable economic recovery for improved livelihoods, job creation and business and industrial prosperity in line with the bottom-up economic transformation agenda.
The education sector received KSh702.7billion, being the largest allocation. This includes KSh387.2 billion for the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), KSh58.9 billion for free primary and secondary education, and KSh58.5 billion for higher education scholarships and loans.
The security sector received an allocation of KSh464 billion, with the funds channelled towards the National Police Service (NPS), the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), and the National Intelligence Service (NIS).
This allocation includes KSh10 billion for leasing police vehicles, KSh3.6 billion for modernization programmes, and KSh1.1 billion for construction of the national forensic facilities.
Additionally, among the prioritised was the development of infrastructure, receiving an allocation of KSh318.1 billion for roads, railways, air transport, and energy. From this allocation, KSh217.3 billion will go towards road maintenance and construction, and KSh62.8 billion will go towards energy projects.
President William Ruto’s affordable housing programme received KSh120.2 billion, with KSh 64.5 billion for the construction of affordable houses and KSh KSh10.5 billion for social housing projects.
Mbadi allocated KSh133.4 billion, which will go towards hospitals, emergency care, vaccines, and the roll out of the Universal Health coverage.
Kenyatta National Hospital will receive KSh18.7 billion, Global fund KSh17.3 billion, Primary Healthcare fund KSh13.1 billion, and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital KSh10.8 billion.
County governments will receive KSh474.9 billion, KSh405.1 billion as an equitable share and the rest through conditional allocations from the national government and development partners.
KSh 41.3 billion has been allocated to social protection programmes such as cash transfers to the elderly, orphans and vulnerable communities.
