Finance and Planning Committee Chairman Kuria Kimani, National Treasury CS John Mbadi and National Assembly Budget and Appropriations Committee Chairman Samuel Atandi at Parliament Buildings, on June 11, 2026. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi called it a ‘‘Mwananchi Budget’’ — a budget for the common citizen. He promised no new taxes, affordable housing, and bottom-up transformation.
But economists, financial analysts, and new data on Kenya’s cost-of-living crisis say the 2026/27 spending plan delivers the opposite of a hustler economy.
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