Kenyans who have been struggling to raise money to buy houses from the real estates markets in Kenya have found a relief after president Uhuru Kenyatta signed a bill that is aimed at subsidizing the cost of housing in Kenya.
The State Department of Housing received Sh21 billion. The department is steering the affordable housing pillar of the Big Four agenda.
This is serves as breath taking moment of Kenyans who have so quite some time been scared of expensive rent costs in Kenya.
The Judiciary has failed in its quest for more cash having been allocated Sh1.5 billion of the Sh4 billion it sought from the National Treasury.
The allocation was captured in the Supplementary Appropriation Bill assented to by President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House on Tuesday.
The Bill entrenches austerity measures that will guide government expenditure for the financial year ending June 30, 2019.
In June, MPs approved drastic budget cuts that threatened to hamper the Judiciary’s operations in the wake of the renewed war on graft.
Despite pleas by Chief Justice David Maraga, the National Assembly slashed the budget from Sh17.3 billion to Sh14.8 billion.
Maraga had requested more cash to build new courts and hire more magistrates and judges.
He criticised the drastic budget cuts and said 70 Judiciary projects may stall owing to lack of cash.
On June 12, Chief Registrar Anne Amadi said the Judiciary’s construction projects may stall.
“We will continue to dispense justice from the dilapidated sheds we call courts,” she said then
The Budget and Appropriations committee chaired by Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung’wa reduced the Judiciary’s development budget from Sh4 billion to Sh1.5 billion.
Last month, the President promised to review the Judiciary’s budget.
Uhuru proposed additional funding for the Judiciary, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, the Directorate of Criminal