Spending on public debt repayments and pensions has for the first time gobbled up half of Kenya's domestic revenues in the year to June 2026, underlining the burden of loans and taking care of retired civil servants.
Spending from the Consolidated Fund Services (CFS)—the account for paying debt and pensions—accounted for 51.8 percent of taxes in the fiscal year to June, up from 49.8 percent a year earlier.
The two items accounted for 18 percent of tax revenues in the 2013/14 financial year, reflecting their impact in denying State resources for critical items like building infrastructure and stocking hospitals with drugs.
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