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| Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee Hon. Livingstone Waiganjo |
Kiambu County Assembly has
approved a supplementary budget of over Ksh 17.9 Billion for the financial year
2019/2020 to cater for county projects and services with the biggest
beneficiary’s being the Roads and Public Works, Water and Environment, Agriculture
and Education departments as key priority areas.
The move was necessitated by an
increase of Equitable Share of Revenue from the National Government by Ksh
193,700,000 making it move from Ksh 9,238, 000,000 to Ksh 9,431,700,000. Also by an increase of
conditional grant by Ksh 25,764,540 from the previous Ksh 2,381,409,369 to Ksh
2,407,173,909 and an unspent balance brought forward of Ksh 1,194,751,803 from
the Financial year 2018/2019.
It is a project based
supplementary budget that will ensure that each Ward gets the Four (4)
kilometre road and Fuel Levy roads which the Governor will launch coming
Friday.
The increment of Ksh 320 million
to Roads Department (Ksh 140 million on major roads and Ksh 60 million on
access roads) will guarantee improved roads to beat the rainy season.
The MCAs have also allocated
funds to departments which had been given zero or minimum budgets like the
Youth and Sports Department, Agriculture and Water and will have 40,000 new
water connections which will be a 70% realisation.
They also set aside Sh 73 million
to purchase of graders and slashed Ksh 300 million meant for only one Githurai
market to now benefit various wards with bodaboda sheds and markets.
The MCAs also allocated some
substantial amount of money to cater for the repairs and maintenance of
vehicles which have been grounded before to enable them to be put in good
condition for easy service delivery at the grassroots by the officers.
The motion to approve the
supplementary budget to meet the expenditure of this year was moved by the
Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee Hon. Livingstone
Waiganjo and seconded by Hon. Josephine Nduta Muongi.
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