Police arrest a protestor outside Parliament Buildings on June 10, 2021 as Treasury and National Planning Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani presented this year’s Sh3.6 trillion budget in the National Assembly.
Yatani’s vehicle was surrounded by heavily armed officers from the paramilitary General Service Unit.
The fanfare that usually accompanies Budget Day was absent yesterday.
In making his short trip between the Treasury Building and parliament to present Kenya’s biggest budget ever at Sh3.6 trillion, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani was carrying the aspirations of the country in his hands.
Delivered under increasingly difficult economic conditions due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged every sector of the economy, Mr Yatani was hard-pressed to inspire hope in the ordinary citizen.
