The county government of Kiambu County is set to received Ksh 12.7 billion from equitable shared revenue kitty.
The funds are part of the Ksh 400 billion the National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Professor Njuguna Ndung’u allocated to the 47 devolved units country during his 2024/25 Budget statement for the Fiscal year
The CS explained that the total money allocated is however Ksh 444.5 billion and that on top of the Ksh 400.1 billion , there will be Ksh 8.76 billion as additional conditional allocations from the National Government share of revenue and Ksh 35.66 billion as conditional allocation from the Development Partners.
“The government is putting in measures to enhance County governments resources revenue and we are implementing the policy support the enhancement of own source revenue by County governments”, he said
Prof Ndung’u, explained though that the treasury however awaits the enactment of the national rating bill that will enable County governments to collect more property rates, including the contribution in lieu of rates.
He added that a multi-agency committee has also been formed to manage the roll out of the proposed integrated management system in the 47 county governments that will see increase in transparency, accountability and efficiency in revenue collection
“The National Government continues to support the County Governments targeted strategic interventions to ensure that devolution succeeds through transfer of sharable revenues to strengthen their systems and capacity in service delivery”, Prof Ndung’u said .
The government , the CS said has to fully automated public procurement and disposal processes by implementing end to end e-government procurement system has seen phase 1 successfully undergo user acceptance testing and piloting in twelve selected Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDA) and Counties and will continue until December 2024.
Once the e government procurement system is rolled out, the Prof. Ndung’u said that all MDAs and executive offices of County governments will be required to fully transition to the system while State agencies and corporations, County Assemblies and County Agencies will be on-boarded in the second phase of FY 2024/25.
“This system will reduce costs of goods, works and services by between 10 percent tad 15 percent , maximize value for many and increase transparency in procurement”, CS said
The budgeting process for FY 2024/25 has given priority programmes that are being implemented under the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA) and undertaken through a value chain approach under five clusters.
The Clusters are Agricultural Transformation and Inclusive Growth; Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME); Housing and Settlement; Healthcare and Digital Superhighway and Creative Industry and have been allocated Ksh 283.5 billion .
By Wangari Ndirangu
