In two years as Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has reinstated most of the tax increases in the 2024 Finance Bill that triggered the nationwide Generation Z protests in June 2024 (AC Vol 67 No 11 Ruto squeezes the budget before the vote)...

Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi one of five ODM lawmakers in cabinet has since reinstated most of the tax rises in the 2024 Finance Bill and his 2026 bill aims to tighten compliance to meet the expected tax revenue of KSh3...

Days earlier the mild-mannered Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi – one of five ODM ministers appointed to Ruto's cabinet after the June 2024 Gen Z protests – publicly called for Sifuna's removal...

Debt servicing still swallows at least 65% of government revenue and while Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi is under constant pressure to find new sources of revenue there is little more left to squeeze from middle-class Kenyans...

Wanga Joho – a former Governor of Mombasa – Oparanya Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi and Junet Mohamed ODM's leader in the National Assembly lead the pro-Ruto continuity faction...

ODM's bigwigs such as Treasury and Mining cabinet secretaries John Mbadi and Hassan Joho want to stay in government and give Ruto a second term in August 2027 then ride on his coat tails...

More consequential to Kenya's debt profile are talks between Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi and Chinese officials to convert the $5bn Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) loan – one of the country's largest infrastructure projects – from dollars to yuan...

Finance ministers for Kenya Tanzania and Uganda – John Mbadi Mwigulu Lameck Nchemba and Matia Kasaija – face common challenges: increasing revenues targeting spending more effectively and reducing debt burdens (AC Vol 65 No 13 A fragile recovery)...