CS John Mbadi Estimates Ksh4.5 Trillion Budget for Financial Year 2025/26

Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi on Wednesday estimated the budget for the financial year 2025/26 at Ksh4,485.7 billion (4.5 trillion).

The Treasury Ministry published the 2025 Budget Policy Statement (BPS) cutting across the financial years of 2025/26, 2026/2027, and 2027/2028 and invited Kenyans to give comments on the BPS before its enactment. "The total budget for FY 2025/26 is projected at Ksh4,485.7 billion.

The allocations to the three Arms of Government including sharable revenues to the County Governments," read the Draft 2025 Policy in part.

This budget estimate represents an increase from Ksh3.0 trillion in the 2024/25 financial year.A key thing to note in the 2025/26 budget is that the government will entrench the zero-based budgeting approach in preparing budgets.