Kenya: Only six counties have been cleared to access this financial year's funds after their budgets met the criteria set by the Controller of Budget and Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA). Bomet, Kakamega, Nandi, Narok, Wajir and Garissa have been allowed to access their funds for the 2014/15 financial year as their budgets meet ceilings set by the CRA.
owever, 41 counties are yet to meet the budget ceilings either because the budgets of county assemblies or county executives are beyond the recommended Sh294 million. Their budgets were rejected by the CRA and the Controller of Budget will not be able to pay allowances for governors, salaries for chief officers, assembly members and county staff. "The CRA was requested to explain the make-up of the Sh238 billion share revenue that had been recommended as allocation to county governments by the Inter-Governmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC)," said CRA chairman Micah Cheserem in a circular dated June 24, 2014 explaining why the budgetary ceilings were set. "Money allocated for services is Sh207.8 billion while that allocated for the new county structure that includes county executives and assemblies is Sh30 billion," he continued. Cheserem said the ceilings were introduced to ensure money meant for development is not reallocated to other things. In the recommendations, all 47 county assemblies are expected to spend a total of Sh16 billion on salaries, allowances, gratuity and pension for county assembly members including the Speaker, staff and mileage, among other payments.
County Executives are expected to spend a total of Sh13 billion on the same
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