{"id":97612,"date":"2026-02-22T04:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/97612\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T04:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:11:11","slug":"money-greed-state-house-blows-sh10-4b-on-travels-hospitality-and-car-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/97612\/","title":{"rendered":"Money greed: State House blows Sh10.4b on travels, hospitality and car purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/qpJ5J2XYoAyUbOvvfgB3BXTKb9yC9fcjwUF6MyrF.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">State House overspends despite falling tax revenue. [File Courtesy]&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>State House spent Sh10.4 billion in the first seven months of the 2025\/26 financial year, nearly a third more than its entire annual allocation, even as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001541006\/the-devil-is-in-the-details-of-this-year-s-budget-policy-statement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Treasury<\/a> reported a widening revenue shortfall that has cast doubt on the government\u2019s fiscal projections.<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Fact\u2011first reporting that puts you at the heart of the newsroom. Subscribe for full access.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    Unlimited access to all premium content<br \/>\n                    Uninterrupted ad-free browsing experience<br \/>\n                    Mobile-optimized reading experience<br \/>\n                    Weekly Newsletters<br \/>\n                    MPesa, Airtel Money and Cards accepted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; State House overspends despite falling tax revenue. [File Courtesy]&#13; &#13; State House spent Sh10.4 billion in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[80,55749,55748,55750],"class_list":{"0":"post-97612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-kenya","9":"tag-state-house-meetings","10":"tag-state-house-spendingstate-house-greed","11":"tag-william-ruto-money-greed"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116112332095133546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}