{"id":11932,"date":"2023-10-03T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=11932"},"modified":"2023-10-03T16:08:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T16:08:30","slug":"ruto-orders-all-ministries-to-cut-budget-by-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=11932","title":{"rendered":"Ruto Orders All Ministries to Cut Budget by 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-13.png 700w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-13-480x240.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 700px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President William Ruto has directed ministries to cut their budget by 10 per cent to cut costs amid renewed push for austerity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This follows a cabinet meeting that was held at State House Nairobi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;President William Ruto has directed ministries to cut their 2023\/2024 budgets by 10 per cent to align expenditures with available resources amidst the global economic stress,&#8221; read the dispatch in part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move also comes amidst concerns from Kenyans over the expenditure from the government amidst increased taxation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, the Cabinet resolved to set aside Ksh4 billion to purchase maize from farmers&nbsp;that were harvested in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was also noted that measures would be taken to help the farmers in drying and storing the produce to mitigate post-harvest losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President William Ruto has directed ministries to cut their budget by 10 per cent to cut costs amid renewed push for austerity.&nbsp; This follows a cabinet meeting that was held at State House Nairobi on Tuesday. &#8220;President William Ruto has directed ministries to cut their 2023\/2024 budgets by 10 per cent to align expenditures with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11934,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11932\/revisions\/11934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}