{"id":231480,"date":"2026-04-26T14:31:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mp-njeri-maina-questions-state-house-spending-as-education-funding-concerns-grow\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:31:53","slug":"kenya-mp-njeri-maina-questions-state-house-spending-as-education-funding-concerns-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mp-njeri-maina-questions-state-house-spending-as-education-funding-concerns-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: MP Njeri Maina Questions State House Spending As Education Funding Concerns Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kirinyaga Woman Representative Jane Maina Njeri has criticised the government&#8217;s spending priorities, questioning the allocation of billions to State House operations while the education sector faces persistent funding challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking on Friday, Njeri claimed that State House expenditure has reached Sh89 billion in the three years since President William Ruto took office, a figure she contrasted with spending under former president Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;We have seen the State House&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240566.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kirinyaga Woman Representative Jane Maina Njeri has criticised the government&#8217;s spending priorities, questioning the allocation of billions to State House operations while the education sector faces persistent funding challenges. Speaking on Friday, Njeri claimed that State House expenditure has reached Sh89 billion in the three years since President William Ruto took office, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":231481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,5987,1632,6141,11916,5110,4688,430,15759,257,38753,5152,254,9063,6017],"class_list":["post-231480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concerns","tag-education","tag-grow","tag-house","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-maina","tag-news","tag-njeri","tag-questions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spending","tag-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}