Teachers, small farmers, and small businesses are the
biggest losers in the 2013/14 budget that is to be unveiled tomorrow. This is
after the government slashed kshs.100 billion for social programmes. For
instance, 1.3 billion shillings that had been set aside for training of small
scale businessmen, as well as to facilitate start of small businesses has been
slashed from the budget.
This comes even as most Kenyans derive their livelihood from
the small and medium sized enterprises- SMEs. Equally, Kshs.1.8 billion that had
been allocated as salary increment for lecturers has been slashed, a pointer to
a possible lecturers strike in the course of the year. In the same respect,
40,000 additional new teachers will not be employed, as the government seeks to
cut public spending.
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