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Why Mbadi's budget review is all about lowering expectations

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National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi on July 29, 2024. [Elvis Ogina,Standard]

Today, September 23, 2024, is the final day for our public input into the 2024 Budget Review and Outlook Paper (BROP). Friday, 4 October 2024 is the final day for our public inputs into Treasury CS Mbadi's innovatively proactive call through press notice to include Kenyans in the legislative reforms needed to collectively fix our budget, and seemingly, our economy as well.

The first call is embedded in our budget calendar for 2025/26, the penultimate fiscal year to our 2027 election because the 2027/28 budget two years later will be transitional, as was 2022/23.

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