Nairobi, Dec. 2 -- Government spending on day-to-day expenses such as office supplies, transportation, fuel, travel and repairs in the first quarter of the current financial year ending June 2026,rose for the first time in three years, signaling easing of deep cuts in operational costs.

The National Treasury has disclosed in the latest quarterly budgetary report that operations and maintenance (O&M) expenditure for the July to September 2025 period climbed 41.34 percent to Sh320.90 billion.

The jump from Sh227.05 billion in the same quarter of the previous year marked the first early-year expansion in the cost of running public offices and maintaining State assets since President William Ruto took office, pledging deep austerity on non-...