Nairobi, Sept. 8 -- President William Ruto's administration has clocked Sh364.24 billion in emergency spending over four years amid concerns over abuse of a constitutional provision that allows emergency withdrawals for urgent and unforeseeable items.

More than half of this amount, or Sh209.37 billion, was spent in the year ended June 2026 alone, according to official disclosures, consolidating a spending spree under Article 223 of the Constitution.

Disclosures by the Controller of Budget show that emergency spending in the year to June was triple the Sh66.5billion spent the previous year. President Ruto's administration tapped Sh69.2 billion in emergency spending in its first financial year, while Sh19.1 billion was spent in the year e...