An argument that Kenya’s Consolidated Fund lacks transparency and accountability due to blurred roles within the National Treasury.
The National Treasury building in Nairobi. [File, Standard]
I view Kenya’s public institutions not as dry bureaucracies but as mirrors of our collective awareness or its absence. The Consolidated Fund, the government’s central account under Article 206 of the Constitution, should be a transparent artery carrying tax shillings into roads, schools and hospitals.
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