The County Executive Committee Member (CECM) for Finance and Economic Planning, Michael Eregae has assured the residents of Turkana County that the FY’2023/2024 budget has significantly considered the nine-development priorities Governor Jeremiah Lomorukai promised to deliver to transform the County.
“The Governor’s socio-economic vision to transform Turkana County to a desirable level of development through his 9-Point Development Agenda will be realized and delivered in the new budget” the CECM Finance said while presenting the budget to the County Assembly for the new Administration, terming it ‘a citizen driven budget’.
The Finance CECM said that the Executive has kept the promise to fund the projects that were deferred in last financial year (FY’2022/2023) to cushion the residents against persistent drought in the budget themed ‘Turkana socio-economic transformation through investments in the Nine-Point Agenda’.
He noted that the budget has adequately catered for future drought mitigation measures and reserved some resources for settlement of pending bills and commitments.
The CECM disclosed the projected budget spending estimates for the FY’2023/2024 to be Sh14.5 billion.
Out of this, he said, Sh9.3 billion will be spent on recurrent expenditure while Sh5.2 billion will be for development expenditure.
The County Government has also projected to raise Sh200 million as own source revenue (OSR).
The Finance CECM gave the spending allocations for each County Department as follows:
Office of the Governor, Sh466.5M, Office of the Deputy Governor Sh45M, office of the County Attorney, Sh96.5M, Finance and Economic Planning, Sh815.3M, Water Services, Sh473.8M,
Health and Sanitation, Sh1.2 B Trade, Gender and Youth Affairs, Sh605.9M Education, Sports and Social Protection-Sh.1.15B, Public Service, Administration and Disaster Management-Sh. 5.29B Infrastructure, Transport and Public Works-Sh434.6M
Agriculture, Livestock Development and Fisheries-Sh. 1.59B Tourism, Culture, Natural Resources and Climate Change-Sh. 395.9M Lands, Physical Planning and Urban Areas Management-Sh. 267.8M County Public Service Board-Sh.177.4M
Lodwar Municipality, Sh405.1M Kakuma Municipality-Sh20M (For the Municipality’s start up budget of setting up key structures and systems in place) Turkana County Assembly-Sh.994.8M.
By Peter Gitonga
