The State Department for Internal Security and National Administration used 86 percent of its annual budget within one month. This has emerged after disclosures that were made by the National Treasury.
According to the disclosures, the department spent Sh3.4 billion in the first financial month of July against the total allocated budget of Sh3.97 billion. Following this astonishing expenditure, the department was left with some Sh570 million only to run its development projects over the next eleven months.
However, the National Treasury disclosures did not reveal which projects the money was sent into, leaving room for speculations on how the money may have been spent so rapidly.
This is the latest incident of a government agency blowing money. As at June 2025, the State House was leading in blowing allocations. For instance, the State House spent a record Sh11.64 billion in recurrent expenditures in the last financial year. This was a record jump of 170.38 percent over the Sh4.31 billion that had been passed by parliament.
Within the first eleven months of the previous financial year, the State House, and the departments for Social Protection and Sports burst their full-year recurrent budgets by nearly Sh9.43 billion.
The State Department for Social Protection and Senior Citizens Affairs spent nearly Sh6.47 billion above the full year budget while the Sports department exceeded its budget by nearly Sh1.5 billion. This docket received Sh2.36 billion for recurrent expenses, which was 173.33 percent more than the Sh863.81 billion full-year budget.
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After blowing its budget, the State House received an additional Sh3.7 billion in the third supplementary budget for the previous financial year that ended in June. Most of this extra funding was allocated to cover domestic travel which increased from Sh933.1 million to Sh2.1 billion.
