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Dennis Kabaara

Beyond debts and deficits: Will budget 202526 chart a new path?

A starting point might be the contemporary official view that Kenyans celebrate failure over success; that we are too negative.

By Dennis Kabaara 5 hrs ago

Beyond debts and deficits: Will budget 202526 chart a new path?

The national government would not matter much if devolution delivered

The national government would not matter much if devolution delivered

By Dennis Kabaara 8 days ago

Budget 2025: Kenya targets growth, reality suggests economic headwinds

Budget 2025: Kenya targets growth, reality suggests economic headwinds

By Dennis Kabaara 15 days ago

Why Kenya's Judiciary struggles to deliver justice despite promised funding

Why Kenya's Judiciary struggles to deliver justice despite promised funding

By Dennis Kabaara 22 days ago

Decades apart, Ruto's development tours echo Kanu-style platform for roadside declarations

One presumes that these development tours are supposed to be useful advancements on our infamous past of Kanu's roadside declarations.

By Dennis Kabaara 28 days ago

Decades apart, Ruto's development tours echo Kanu-style platform for roadside declarations

Kenyans, brace for a bumpy economic journey in the run-up to 2027 elections

Contrary to the Treasury assertions, we will experience higher than projected fiscal deficits in this pre-election period - on account of lower than expected taxes on depressed economic activities.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 month ago

Kenyans, brace for a bumpy economic journey in the run-up to 2027 elections

Unusual reflection of Ruto's mid-term promises against actions on delivery

The trouble here is the recorded achievements are mostly input and activity-based, so it is no surprise that Kenyans at large are still not feeling the outputs.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 month ago

Unusual reflection of Ruto's mid-term promises against actions on delivery

Ruto, Raila handshake is all about self-preservation, not progress

The political collaboration between UDA and ODM, represents the latest example of a long-held belief among our political elite that Kenyans have short memories.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 month ago

Ruto, Raila handshake is all about self-preservation, not progress

Building castles in the air: Kenyans want jobs, not just talk and numbers

As Kenyans bemusedly endure this administration's penchant for costly foreign travel and local development tours in a tough economic environment, now the 2027 election agenda is already framing.

By Dennis Kabaara 2 months ago

Building castles in the air: Kenyans want jobs, not just talk and numbers

Why 2025 budget must fix tax chaos, county funding gaps and rising debt

As we all know, the 2025/26 budget process - strictly 2025/26 to 2027/28 Medium-Term Budget process - is well underway, at both national and county government levels.

By Dennis Kabaara 2 months ago

Why 2025 budget must fix tax chaos, county funding gaps and rising debt

Graft, case backlog and access to justice should top Judiciary's reform agenda

Judiciary, no stranger to calls for radical reform finds itself under a harsh spotlight following a highly accusatory and largely social media-driven push for yet another judicial purge.

By Dennis Kabaara 3 months ago

Graft, case backlog and access to justice should top Judiciary's reform agenda

Lost in translation: Kenya's endless dance with parastatals and the IMF expectations

Eyes always light up and the national pulse beats harder when the government deigns to broach the sensitive subject of parastatal reform.

By Dennis Kabaara 3 months ago

Lost in translation: Kenya's endless dance with parastatals and the IMF expectations

Ruto's budget this year will be most important in the middle of first term

As our 2027 politics gets louder and more aggressive, it is easy to forget we are entering the home stretch of a 2025/26 budget process launched in August last year.

By Dennis Kabaara 3 months ago

Ruto's budget this year will be most important in the middle of first term

2025: Will political sycophancy derail Kenya's pursuit of economic reform?

As we step into the hopeful embrace of 2025, let's randomly walk through a couple of unusual reflections for the year.

By Dennis Kabaara 3 months ago

2025: Will political sycophancy derail Kenya's pursuit of economic reform?

Thank Kenyans for cancellation of Adani deals, not foreign pressure

Our eagerness to celebrate foreign pressure as the reason these deals were cancelled understates the important role played by local whistleblowers.

By Dennis Kabaara 5 months ago

Thank Kenyans for cancellation of Adani deals, not foreign pressure

William Ruto's State of the Nation address should be honest and reflective

The writer says the State of The Nation Address is more about self-reflection and introspection than it is about self-praise and congratulation.

By Dennis Kabaara 5 months ago

William Ruto's State of the Nation address should be honest and reflective

Why Gachagua's impeachment debate is a diversion

For the avoidance of doubt, the ongoing process to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is a terrible diversion.

By Dennis Kabaara 6 months ago

Why Gachagua's impeachment debate is a diversion

How Kenya Kwanza errors are making Kenya better country

Kenya Kwanza is an unpopular government, and it doesn't need rich people to fund poor people to say this.

By Dennis Kabaara 6 months ago

How Kenya Kwanza errors are making Kenya better country

Ruto's missteps are making Kenya a better place

Public participation on the impeachment motion against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has suddenly, and unsurprisingly, mutated into a referendum on on Ruto's presidency.

By Dennis Kabaara 6 months ago

Ruto's missteps are making Kenya a better place

How Kenya Kwanza turned a perfect storm into a crisis in two years

DP impeachment is a cacophonous sideshow. The reality is likely about real transparency and accountability in our fiscus before we are called for taxation.

By Dennis Kabaara 7 months ago

How Kenya Kwanza turned a perfect storm into a crisis in two years

The marking scheme has changed: Today's reality is not that of 2022

In this "business unusual" space, the focus is the destination of our journey, not their vehicle to take us there. Because, here and everywhere, the government is not the economy.

By Dennis Kabaara 7 months ago

The marking scheme has changed: Today's reality is not that of 2022

Why Mbadi's budget review is all about lowering expectations

The first call is embedded in our budget calendar for 2025/26, the penultimate fiscal year to our 2027 election because the 2027/28 budget two years later will be transitional

By Dennis Kabaara 7 months ago

Why Mbadi's budget review is all about lowering expectations

How can government improve our pockets without overtaxing?

How do we improve the lot of Kenyans without imposing new taxes and overborrowing while offering government services?

By Dennis Kabaara 7 months ago

How can government improve our pockets without overtaxing?

What downgrade by credit rating firms means for Kenya's economy

S&P lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating for Kenya from "B" to "B-". Like the legend of Nero's Rome, our leadership fiddles as Kenya burns.

By Dennis Kabaara 8 months ago

What downgrade by credit rating firms means for Kenya's economy

Who takes blame if broad based government fails, Ruto or Raila?

The broad-based government reboots President Ruto's economic turnaround agenda that has so far been mostly mixed, moving in fits and starts.

By Dennis Kabaara 8 months ago

Who takes blame if broad based government fails, Ruto or Raila?

Ruto's government has spending problem, income is way too much

It is fair to speculate that President William Ruto's Kenya Kwanza administration might turn out to be our most disappointing since independence.

By Dennis Kabaara 9 months ago

Ruto's government has spending problem, income is way too much

'Hybrid' government birthed by protests, but point clearly missed

After a month of Gen Z-led pro-good governance, not anti-government, protests, we are back to default settings.

By Dennis Kabaara 9 months ago

'Hybrid' government birthed by protests, but point clearly missed

Firing an entire cabinet in a presidential system is akin to firing yourself

In our presidential system of government of technical, not elected, ministers, firing your entire Cabinet sounds like you just fired yourself. But we are getting ahead of ourselves.

By Dennis Kabaara 9 months ago

Firing an entire cabinet in a presidential system is akin to firing yourself

The hard task ahead for Kenya Kwanza after tax bill collapse

A second week of anti-tax protests meant the 2024 Finance Bill was not signed into law, but this was really an accountability moment for Kenya's leaders.

By Dennis Kabaara 10 months ago

The hard task ahead for Kenya Kwanza after tax bill collapse

The task before MPs: Time to drop vacuity and attempt augustness

The House on the Hill is increasingly being an acronym for Hubris, Incompetence, Lies and Looting.

By Dennis Kabaara 10 months ago

The task before MPs: Time to drop vacuity and attempt augustness

Budget maths not adding up and why it's in order to blame our MPs

It is becoming increasingly difficult to link this administration's fine words with its fancy (and correct) ideas - six objectives, five pillars, five clusters, nine value chains etc

By Dennis Kabaara 10 months ago

Budget maths not adding up and why it's in order to blame our MPs

From secrets to statements, and why Kibaki's budgets hit home

The public narrative is Kibaki unlocked our potential with simplicity; Ruto is killing it with complexity.

By Dennis Kabaara 10 months ago

From secrets to statements, and why Kibaki's budgets hit home

Budget 2024: The big picture and the IMF hand

While Finance Bill 2024 is widely unpopular across businesses and among the people, it is a necessary condition for continued IMF support to Kenya.

By Dennis Kabaara 10 months ago

Budget 2024: The big picture and the IMF hand

One man, one-shilling talk could be diversion trick from real issues

It is not beyond the wit of man to suspect that the timing of this debate is not a coincidence with reactions to it being just as noisy as the proposition.

By Dennis Kabaara 10 months ago

One man, one-shilling talk could be diversion trick from real issues

Is government on 'fuliza' mode?

KRA average monthly tax take this year has been Sh171 billion against a target of Sh208 billion.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Is government on 'fuliza' mode?

Kenya Kwanza's approach to the wage bill crisis could be better

In true fat cat fashion we heard nothing this week about two important issues: pay inequity and multiple allowances.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Kenya Kwanza's approach to the wage bill crisis could be better

Bane of Kenya Kwanza's Big Five agenda as regime enters second 18-month phase

Today's tragedy is we miss tomorrow's promise in Ruto's transformation agenda which, on paper, is rather clever in framing and structuring.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Bane of Kenya Kwanza's Big Five agenda as regime enters second 18-month phase

Kenya Kwanza agenda lacks public buy-in

The trouble with this administration is they spent their first year telling us Jubilee was the existential threat, when it was our actual debt.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Kenya Kwanza agenda lacks public buy-in

Kenya in 2023: A case of being in motion without any movement

If 2023 was the year of "finyaa!" and pain for Kenyans, doesn't 2024 already feel like it might be "finyaa squared"?

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Kenya in 2023: A case of being in motion without any movement

Forget dialogue, cost of living not about to come down any time soon

From KNBS, inflation came in at 6.6 per cent in December, a fall from 6.8 per cent the previous month and far lower than the 9.2 per cent when the Kenya Kwanza administration assumed office.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Forget dialogue, cost of living not about to come down any time soon

Began as national dialogue, ended up an incomplete elite settlement

It is difficult to understand what Parliament is expected to do with the recommendations on electoral reform, multiparty democracy, new political positions or fresh politically-inspired funds.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Began as national dialogue, ended up an incomplete elite settlement

Leaders' words unhelpful if they do not address citizens' worries

Endless naysaying is one thing, but offering a different picture requires real work, and our politics is all about playful sound and fury.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Leaders' words unhelpful if they do not address citizens' worries

Forget the norm, this is what we expect President to address today

State of Nation Address should be different from budget, economic policy or an inspiring national day speech. Reporting must speak to the status of who and where we are as a nation.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Forget the norm, this is what we expect President to address today

Why Ruto's 'tax everything that moves' approach is bound to fail

The everyday Kenyan is fed up watching YouTube and TikTok clips of large motorcades and frequent flyer pictures of leaders escaping a country where many struggle to get home.

By Dennis Kabaara 1 year ago

Why Ruto's 'tax everything that moves' approach is bound to fail

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