{"id":142469,"date":"2026-05-28T20:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mbadi-quizzed-on-revenue-projections-as-deficit-hits-ksh1-1-trillion\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:02:43","slug":"mbadi-quizzed-on-revenue-projections-as-deficit-hits-ksh1-1-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mbadi-quizzed-on-revenue-projections-as-deficit-hits-ksh1-1-trillion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbadi quizzed on Revenue Projections as Deficit Hits KSh1.1 Trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya May 28 \u2013 NAIROBI, Kenya, May 28 \u2014 Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee have raised sharp concerns over revenue shortfalls, healthcare accountability and mounting fiscal pressures during a high-stakes review of the FY 2026\/27 budget.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi defended the proposed KSh4.785 trillion spending plan, which carries a KSh1.111 trillion deficit to be financed largely through domestic borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>However, lawmakers questioned the sustainability of the projections, citing persistent underperformance in revenue collection and lack of clarity on counties\u2019 own-source revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns also emerged over the Social Health Authority, with MPs demanding transparency on how benefits are being accessed despite more than 27 million Kenyans being registered.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury officials admitted that only about 5 million contributors are actively paying into the scheme and deferred detailed beneficiary data to the SHA Board.<\/p>\n<p>Additional scrutiny focused on pending bills, education funding gaps and the effectiveness of key reforms such as the Electronic Government Procurement system and the Single Treasury Account.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury attributed pending bills to historical disbursement delays but said progress had been made in clearing arrears.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the concerns, Mbadi insisted the budget framework supports economic growth and fiscal consolidation under the government\u2019s reform agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The committee has now concluded its public participation exercise on the budget and will submit its report to the National Assembly on Tuesday.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya May 28 \u2013 NAIROBI, Kenya, May 28 \u2014 Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee have raised sharp concerns over revenue shortfalls, healthcare accountability and mounting fiscal pressures during a high-stakes review of the FY 2026\/27 budget. Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi defended the proposed KSh4.785 trillion spending plan, which carries a KSh1.111 [&hellip;]<\/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-142469","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\/142469","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=142469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}