Reports of the country being broke emerged on Friday, April 7, after the government failed to pay some of its employees March salaries.
The government is yet to address the issue. However, Treasury Cabinet Secretary, Njunguna Ndung'u, spoke on the matter while attending a meeting with parliamentarians on April 8.
During the meeting, the CS expressed that the country was facing financial constraints hampering some of the government's programmes to reduce the cost of living.
He noted that the matter would be addressed once there were sufficient resources for both recurrent and development expenditures.
However, he intimated that the exact timelines for handling the situation were yet to be known.
"If you are living in this country, you must be knowing the challenges we have with our resources. It is something we have to resolve. We have a resource constraint. There is no money, and we have to help ourselves.
"When we get the money, all will be possible. We have come far, and that scarcity will end. We can not say that it will be addressed today or tomorrow, but we will solve that problem," he stated.
Nonetheless, at the time, he allayed any fears that the situation would spread throughout the year.
"The government is like a home. Sometimes you may have needs but there is no money for that. However, when you work hard, you will finally get money to address your needs," he stated.
Reports of the country being broke saw the Azimio la Umoja coalition, through the leader of the minority Opiyo Wandayi call for an audit of government coffers even as a section of MPs claimed that they had also not been paid.
"Today, about six months into this regime, Kenya cannot pay salaries, leave alone finance its other operations.
"This is the sad state of affairs that the administration is hiding from Kenyans," he stated.
Some legislators, such as Kakamega senator Boni Khalwale claimed they had been paid.
