{"id":140746,"date":"2026-05-12T09:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mps-tear-into-cs-miano-over-absence-from-tourism-budget-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:02:55","slug":"mps-tear-into-cs-miano-over-absence-from-tourism-budget-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mps-tear-into-cs-miano-over-absence-from-tourism-budget-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs Tear Into CS Miano Over Absence From Tourism Budget Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya May 12 \u2013 Tourism Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano came under sharp criticism from Members of Parliament after she failed to appear before the National Assembly Committee during deliberations on the Ministry\u2019s 2026\/27 Budget Estimates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Committee members, led by Chairperson Kareke Mbiuki (Maara), faulted the Cabinet Secretary for missing the meeting for the second consecutive time, raising concerns over what they termed as disregard for a critical budgetary process.<\/p>\n

The legislators grew more agitated after Tourism Principal Secretary John Ololtuaa, who appeared on behalf of the CS, informed the Committee that Ms Miano was unavailable because she was at State House preparing for a dinner hosting guests attending the Africa Forward Summit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWaziri should choose her priorities right. Today\u2019s budget meeting was extremely crucial to her Ministry and she cannot skip it because of other assignments,\u201d said Mbiuki.<\/p>\n

He added that the Cabinet Secretary had also missed a similar meeting the previous week, further delaying the budget scrutiny process.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week, she skipped another meeting where we were expected to deliberate on budget matters that would have determined the success of today\u2019s sitting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Voi MP Abdi Chome criticised the CS for prioritising engagements outside her docket over a meeting central to the ministry\u2019s funding plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s budget meeting was meant to deliberate on resource allocations for projects being undertaken by the ministry. If the CS is serious about her work, she should have been here much earlier than members,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lamu East MP Captain Mohammed Ruweida expressed frustration.<\/p>\n

She revealed that she had incurred extra costs to reschedule her travel plans in order to attend the session.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to pay a fee to reschedule my flight to Mombasa so that I could participate in deliberations on financing development programmes within the ministry. It is unfortunate that the CS chose otherwise,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Despite the uproar over Ms Miano\u2019s absence, the Committee allowed Principal Secretary Ololtuaa to proceed with the presentation of the ministry\u2019s budget estimates.<\/p>\n

However, the PS also found himself on the receiving end after struggling to adequately defend the ministry\u2019s proposed Sh17.5 billion budget for the 2026\/27 financial year.<\/p>\n

Committee members accused him of presenting expenditure figures that were not clearly reflected in the financial documents tabled before them.<\/p>\n

This prompted his dismissal from the session for a second time to allow for better preparation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Committee has noted with concern that you are presenting huge amounts of money for projects that are not captured in the financial document before us,\u201d said Mbiuki.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cBudget matters are about figures, not stories. Since you are ill-prepared, the Committee has no option but to send you back for proper preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Tourism is now expected to reappear before the Committee on Wednesday to defend its budget estimates.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya May 12 \u2013 Tourism Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano came under sharp criticism from Members of Parliament after she failed to appear before the National Assembly Committee during deliberations on the Ministry\u2019s 2026\/27 Budget Estimates. Committee members, led by Chairperson Kareke Mbiuki (Maara), faulted the Cabinet Secretary for missing the meeting for the second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}