The National government has allocated a total of Kes 442.1 million to the forty-seven Counties in the 2023/2024 Budget Statement presented to Parliament by the National Treasury CS Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u Thursday.
Ndung'u stated that the 47 counties will receive Kes 385.4 billion from the equitable share of revenue raised nationally.
The devolved units will also receive Kes 11 billion as additional conditional allocations and another Kes 33.2 billion as conditional allocation from development partners.
Further, Kes 12.5 billion has been set aside as unconditional allocation for the devolved units.
Part of this includes Four hundred twenty-five million for the Transfer of Library Services being a devolved function and Kes 2.9 billion as outstanding mineral royalties share to 32 County Governments as stipulated in the Mining Act, 2016.
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As stipulated by Article (204) of the Constitution, Ksh 7.9 billion has been allocated under the Equalization Fund in the Financial Year 2023/24.
This represents 0.5 per cent of the FY 2019/20 revenue which the CS says is the most recent audited and approved revenue by the National Assembly.
“In addition to this, we have allocated Kes 3 billion to cater for part arrears from the previous years bringing the total allocations under Equalization Fund to Kes 10.9 billion,” Prof. Ndung’u said.
Of the Kes442.1 billion, Nairobi County will receive the largest equitable share after being allocated Kes20 billion followed by Nakuru County at Kes 13.6 billion.
Turkana County has been allocated Kes 13.1 billion, Kakamega Kes 12.9, Kilifi Kes 12.1 billion, Mandera Kes 11.6 billion and Bungoma County Kes 11.1 billion.
Further, Lamu County has been allocated the least amount of equitable share, which stands at Kes 3.2 billion, followed by Elgeyo Marakwet County at Kes 4.8 billion.
Taita Taveta will receive Kes5 billion while Embu, Nyamira and Vihiga Counties will each receive Kes 5.3 billion in equitable share.
