The cost of running public offices under the national government surged 31 percent in the first quarter of the current 2025/26 financial year, exposing the government’s struggles to honour its austerity pledges.
Fresh disclosures by the National Treasury show that State ministries, departments, and agencies spent Sh366.5 billion in the quarter to September 2025 on recurrent votes such as on salaries and wages, administration, operation and maintenance of offices, compared to Sh280.09 billion in a similar period a year earlier.
