Treasury Cabinet Secretary CPA John Mbadi on Thursday, June 11, 2026, presented budget highlights for the 2026/2027 financial year.
Mbadi said the government had proposed a KSh 4.824 trillion budget, the highest the country has ever heard. Of the total budget, Ksh 3.5 trillion will go to recurrent expenditures, while KSh 750 billion is proposed to be allocated for development.
Counties will get a proposed allocation of Ksh 502 billion, out of which Ksh 428 billion will be allocated under the equitable shareable revenue.
In sectoral allocation, Education is among those allocated the largest share of the budget. Mbadi announced that Ksh 784.5 billion is the proposed allocation for the sector, which translates to 26.4 per cent of the ministerial allocation.
Of the total allocation in the education sector, the Teachers Service Commision has been allocated the lion’s share of Ksh 424 billion, with basic education (Ksh 136.6 billion) and higher education (Ksh 163.9 billion) also getting the largest share of the allocation.
It’s a win for the 20,000 intern teachers on contract with Treasury, proposing an allocation of KSh 4.9 billion to employ them on permanent and pensionable terms
Breakdown of the 2026 Education budget allocation
- Teachers’ Service Commission – Ksh 424 billion
- Basic Education – KSh 136.6 billion
- Higher Education – Ksh 163.9 billion
- School innovation – Ksh 1.3 billion
- Free Primary School Education – Ksh 7 billion
- Free Day Secondary School Education – Ksh 54.6 billion
- Junior Secondary School capitation – Ksh 30.7 billion
- National examinations – Ksh 9.9 billion
- Shool feeding programme – Ksh 3 billion
- Employment of 20,000 teachers on contract – Ksh 4.9 billion
- Intern teachers – Ksh 8.2 billion
- Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) – Ksh 56.3 billion
- Universities’ Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) arreas – Ksh 6.3 billion.
