NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 12 – President William Ruto has signed the County Government’s Additional Allocation bill, 2022, into law.
The bill, which is now a law, aimed at providing additional allocation of revenue to the devolved units for the financial year 2022/ 2023.
The bill was sponsored by Mandera Senator Ali Ibrahim Roba in the senate.
“The Bill aims to provide for additional allocations to county governments for the financial year, 2022/2023. The additional allocations to counties are financed either from proceeds of loans and grants from development partners or the national government share revenue,” the state house tweeted Monday.
The previous regime had allocated Sh370 billion to the devolved units in the next financial year, a figure which the former National Treasury and Economic Planning Cabinet Secretary Okur Yatani said represented a 27.3 percent increase from the previous financial years.
County governments were to also receive Sh37.1b as conditional allocation with total allocation before the signing of the bill standing at Sh407 billion.
The head of state had previously committed that his government will ensure county allocation is disbursed on time to shun any hindrance to the county governments in their quest to efficiently serve the public.
“We have had challenges on matters to do with release of shareable revenue on time. I want to commit to all our governors that the government of Kenya going forward will make it possible that the shareable revenue will be released in time and in accordance with the law and Constitution so that we can better manage our counties and make it easier for you to deliver on your mandate,” Ruto said during the swearing in ceremony of Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) .
County Governments have always decried slow disbursement of the funds and additional allocation from the National Government a move they say had hindered smooth delivery of devolved services.
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