ARCHIVE June2019
Google Inc Celebrates Dr Magret Ogola, award-winning author, through a Google-Doodle
The Kenyan medical doctor and author, Dr Magret Ogola, wrote great books of literature such as: “The River and the Source’ among other great works. Read More: Google to train millions […]
Nairobi county integrated development plan 2018-2020
All counties in Kenya are required by law to develop five-year plans called County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP). In today’s episode, we highlight plans for Nairobi county integrated development plan for financial years […]
Economist David Ndii on Claw-backs on devolution
“Government pursues self interest, if they do anything good it is an unintended outcome,” said Economist David Ndii. Many people in Africa have a benevolent view of government. Think of African kings, […]
Highlights from Kisumu County Integrated Plan 2018-2022
Highlights from Kisumu County Integrated Plan 2018-2022 Kisumu County Integrated Plan 2018 includes: Also Read: Kisumu County plans to purchase 7 light firefighting engines by 2022 Kisumu County priorities for FY 2019/2020 […]
Nandi Governor Stephen Sang Arrested
Nandi Governor Stephen Sang arrested Photo: Governor Stephen Sang of Nandi County in a past event. Also Read: Budgetary Allocations to various counties FY 2015/2016
Classification of public expenditure in Kenya
Public expenditure in Kenya is classified as listed below: Recurrent expenditures, Development expenditures and Transfer Payments Recurrent expenditures are those allocations aimed at meeting state operations, e.g. payment of salaries and wages, […]
James Githii Mburu takes the mantle from John Njiraini at Kenya Revenue Authority
James Githii Mburu is the new tax boss at the Kenya Revenue Authority. He is taking the reigns from John Njiraini. The new Commissioner General is expected to close loopholes at KRA […]
Veteran South African Journalist Raymond Louw passed away
In 1946, the career of multi award-winning South African journalist Raymond Louw started at the Rand Daily Mail. Raymond Louw was a great advocate of press freedom. Read More: Jacob Zuma resigns […]
Captain André van Lill worked as a police cameraman for 34 out of 42 years in police service
The police cameraman has seen it all, just 8 years into his career as a police officer, Captain Andre van Lill started his career as a police cameraman. Captain just retired from […]
State of Gender Equality in Kenya
The Equal Measure 2030 project has introduced innovate ways of using data to measure gender equality and determine the progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 5 on Gender Equality […]
How to use Zoom H5 as an audio Interface
How to use Zoom H5 as an audio Interface I have just learned how to use Zoom H5 as an audio interface. Below is the procedure: Connect the Zoom H5 to the […]
Policy Analysts comment on CBK demonetization process
Inflation unavoidable as crooks earlier up to clean up dirty moneyPolicy analysts have keenly assessed Central Bank’s efforts to demonitise Kenyan currency and revealed that this will ultimately led to inflation or […]
Central Bank of Kenya introduces new generation currency notes
On Madaraka Day, 1 June, 2019 President Uhuru Kenyatta invited Governor of Central Bank of Kenya Dr. Patrick Ngugi Njoroge to make “a few remarks”. At that point I was in a […]
Advocating for public budget estimates be presented in spreadsheets?
Advocating for public budget estimates be presented in spreadsheets? In the spit of Public budgets, all county budgets should be presented in form of spreadsheets. My friend Mr. James Muraguri of IPF […]
Does Nairobi proposed budget for 2019/2020 contain a summary table allowing easy comparison of total proposed spending for all ministries/departments?
There is no summary table to enable easy comparison of total Nairobi proposed budget expenditure for Nairobi County administrative units in FY 2019/2020. Nairobi County Treasury should be asked to include […]
Are there staff costs in the Nairobi County budget 2019/2020?
Does the Nairobi County budget 2019/2020 have staff costs? There is no detailed information about staff costs such as salaries as well as benefits of employees by department, and better still, by […]
Is there a list of development projects in Kenya and in which ward or sub-county will be located as per Nairobi County budget 2019?
There is no list of development projects in Kenya and their locations for FY 2019/2020. Citizens of Nairobi County should demand to be provided with the list of development projects clearly showing […]
Are there resources for civic education funding in Nairobi County budget for 2019/2020?
Nairobi County budget. All counties are required to have funds for civic education to facilitate public participation forums. There is no budget for Civic Education funding. This is strange considering that on […]
Does Nairobi County budget for FY 2019/2020 have a budget deficit and how will it be paid for?
Nairobi County plans to implement a budget deficit in FY 2019/2020. This means that the county is planning to spend slightly more resources than it plans to raise from various sources of […]