Security has been beefed up around the National Treasury building and along Parliament Road ahead of the presentation of the 2025 budget to the National Assembly later today.

On Thursday, June 12, 2025, police officers were seen milling around the Treasury building, with several other police officers also being deployed along Parliament Road ahead of the presentation of the budget by Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi.

The Treasury is pulling all stops to make the event a success, with decorations, planning and execution of Mbadi’s maiden budget presentation being among the nation’s top agenda of the day, away from the investigations into the killing of Albert Ojwang’, whose inquiry continues at the Senate committee.

Economic outlook

Mbadi is expected to give a clear outlook of the national coffers, the debt status, challenges and opportunities in the fiscal management of the country’s treasury before presenting the budget to the legislators.

Equally, the CS, who was appointed in 2024 as an expert from ODM in the broad-based government with President William Ruto, is expected to outline the revenue targets the government projects, the allocation of resources to the various sectors of the economy, the tax proposals and how the budget deficit will be plugged.

Some of the sectors that are set to benefit from the budget allocation are the education, security and the executive.

The Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) will get billions of shillings in more funding, which is set to cover recurrent expenditure, including salaries, teacher promotions and the hiring of additional teachers.

Raft of changes

Mbadi also has indicated that he will be highlighting major reforms in the budget-making process and the prudent management of public resources.

“Besides that, there are a lot of reforms, which I will speak to in my speech. We are collecting reasonable revenue, but there is pilferage and wastage of public resources,” he noted.

“My attention in the last one year has been targeted at bringing reforms in policy, procurement, asset management, pension management, human resource management, budget making process and revenue collection.”

In the Ksh4.2 trillion budget, which Mbadi will present before the National Assembly, the state aims to raise at least Ksh2.7 trillion in taxes. Similarly, the government plans to collect at least Ksh560 billion in charges of services, levies and other fees.

The state equally plans to receive grants of about Ksh46 billion, leaving a deficit of Ksh876 billion, which will be financed through external and internal borrowing.