True status of the nation’s fiscal health

The National Treasury building in Nairobi.  

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Whenever you want to gauge the true and accurate status of the government’s financial health, look at that publication titled ‘statement of actual revenues and net exchequers issues’, which is published in the Kenya Gazette every month by the Cabinet Secretary for Planning and Finance.

It is the only legal single source of truth on financers of the government. Indeed, most of the accounting and financial information published by the government is unreliable, misleading, contradictory- and presented on mere Excel sheets.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.