Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has announced that the United States President Donald Trump's administration will continue financing some critical programmes in Kenya despite an executive order that halted foreign aid funding.
Mbadi, while appearing before the Senate plenary on Wednesday afternoon, revealed that he held a conversation with a high-ranking US official on Monday.
According to the CS, the talks were centred around the implications of Trump's executive order on Kenya.
The finance minister informed the legislators that more than 100 programmes that were initially funded by the US through its development partners had since been reduced to 15 programmes. "Mr Speaker, I wanted to point out that a day before yesterday, I had a meeting with the Charity Affairs representative of the United States in Kenya, we held discussions at length and it was clear that the US has been giving us aid directly through implementing partners," Mbadi noted.
