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1 day ago | 
nation.africa | David Mwere
The police oversight agency is pushing for special courts to try officers accused of human rights violations in the country. This came as MPs mull expanding the mandate of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (Ipoa) to include the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), whose rangers have also been accused of human rights abuses.
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3 days ago | 
nation.africa | David Mwere
National Intelligence Service (NIS) Director-General Noordin Haji went emotional before MPs on Monday, lamenting how inadequate funding of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to enable acquisition of modern weaponry is exposing the country’s borders to external aggressors. Mr Haji spoke before the Defense and Foreign Relations committee of the National Assembly as he pushed for a Sh51.45 billion budget for NIS for the 2025/26 financial year.
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4 days ago | 
nation.africa | David Mwere
Members of Parliament have raised alarm over the possibility of betting and gaming companies defrauding the government of billions of shillings in taxes through manipulation of their systems, exposing the soft underbelly of the state-owned Betting Control and Licensing Board (BCLB).
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1 week ago | 
businessdailyafrica.com | David Mwere
The government intends to spend Sh2.8 billion on research and feasibility studies towards the delivery of the affordable housing project in the next financial year. This is notwithstanding that government documents show that there is little interest from Kenyans registering for the acquisition of the affordable housing units.
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1 week ago | 
nation.africa | David Mwere
The government intends to spend Sh2.8 billion on research and feasibility studies towards the delivery of the affordable housing project in the next financial year, 2025/26 financial year. This is notwithstanding that government documents show that there is little interest from Kenyans registering for the acquisition of the affordable housing units.
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1 week ago | 
nation.africa | David Mwere
Content A lobby group now says that failure by the National Treasury to submit the 2024/25 financial year estimates of revenue to the National Assembly alongside those of expenditure as required by the constitution allowed the government to borrow Sh974.9 billion without the requisite approval of MPs. The borrowed funds were used to finance recurrent expenditures contrary to the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, which states that loans are supposed to be for development expenditure only.
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1 week ago | 
taifaleo.nation.co.ke | David Mwere
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1 week ago | 
nation.africa | David Mwere
Members of the defunct presidential task force that President William Ruto established to recommend measures to reform religious institutions are still chasing their pay almost a year since they handed in their report. The taskforce, chaired by former Mbeere North MP Rev Mutava Musyimi, was established through a gazette notice of May 5, 2023, in the wake of the heart-wrenching discovery of mass graves within Shakahola forest, Kilifi County, linked to a religious cult organization.
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1 week ago | 
nation.africa | David Mwere
The National Assembly wants to strip the Treasury Cabinet Secretary of power to grant tax exemptions, as it emerged that the government lost over Sh300 billion in Value-Added Tax (VAT) exemptions in the current financial year. The VAT exemptions were granted to some local manufacturers at a time when the country was struggling with expensive commercial loans procured locally and in foreign markets to finance government operations.
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1 week ago | 
nation.africa | David Mwere
Every financial year, the National Treasury prepares a draft Finance Bill and submits it to the National Assembly for processing. The Bill is introduced in the National Assembly alongside the draft budget estimates of the national government for the next financial year by April 30 – two months before the end of a financial year.
