Emerging details indicate that the National Treasury spent about 61 percent of taxpayer's money on things that cannot spur growth, mostly on loan repayment.
It has emerged that for every Sh100 tax collected from Kenyans, Sh61 found its way back to the creditors who Kenya owe in trillions, reports the Standard.
A huge part of the Sh1.9 trillion tax collected between June last year and May this year was used by Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich to repay maturing debts to a tune of Sh870.6 billion.
The remainder of the Sh1.33 trillion recurrent expenditure was spent on salaries and pensions, leaving close to nothing for development and other infrastructural implementations.
The government has also since adopted a new habit of taking loans ro repay loans, which saw some money taken from creditors to repay others, alongside the interests, in the same year.
For instance, the government in March took a 125 billion loan to repay a 78.7 billion loan from Standard Chartered bank.
The backs and forths with loans and reccurent expenditures left the government with only Sh450 billion for development, which is hundreds of billions short of the 573.9 target.
Among the measures proposed by Rotich to tame the salaries and pensions menace is the halt of recruitment of new civil servants and compelling them to retire at 60.
The government has also announced plans to rely on Official Development Assistance from the World Bank and weeding out of ghost workers from the payrolls.