When the National Assembly's Justice and Legal Affairs Committee sent the electoral body back to the drawing board last month over its Sh63.95 billion budget for the 2027 General Election, it looked like a routine procurement spat.
It isn't. It is the opening skirmish in a macro-economic story that will run through the next 18 months and touch the shilling, the deficit, and the credit available to every business borrowing from a Kenyan bank.
The numbers on the table are already contentious. Of the Sh63.95 billion the IEBC says it needs, Sh12.4 billion is wages for poll officials, Sh6.9 billion is voter registration and Sh6.2 billion is replacement of 45,352 Kiems kits bought less than a decade ago.
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