Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko Gets Sh15.8 Billion Lion's Share of County Cash

Nairobi County has for a fifth year in a row received the lion's share of the Sh314 billion shareable revenue allocated to the 47 counties for the 2018/19 fiscal year.

Nairobi has been allocated Sh15.8 billion, an increase of Sh300 million from the 2017/18 financial year. 

Kilifi County has gotten the second highest allocation of Sh10.8 billion, which is Sh900,000 more than the previous year. Turkana (Sh10.7 billion) and Kakamega (Sh10.3 billion) are the only other counties that have received more than Sh10 billion.

Nakuru (Sh9.4 billion), Kiambu (Sh9.3 billion), Bungoma (Sh8.9 billion), Kitui (Sh8.7 billion), Wajir (Sh8.4 billion) and Machakos (Sh8.3 billion) are other counties that received a sizeable amount of the allocation.

Counties that have been allocated the least amount include; Lamu (Sh3.5 billion), Tharaka Nithi (Sh3.6 billion), Elgeyo Marakwet (Sh3.7 billion), Isiolo (Sh3.9 billion) and Taita Taveta (Sh4 billion).

Others are Laikipia (Sh4.1 billion), Kirinyaga (Sh4.1 billion), Samburu (Sh4.4 billion), Vihiga (Sh4.4 billion) and Embu (Sh4.4 billion).

“These allocations are intended to finance national strategic interventions to be implemented by the county governments,” Senate Finance and Budget Committee chairman Mohamed Mahamud said.

In the 2017-2018 financial year, counties received a total of Sh302 billion from the National Treasury.

Mahamud said the total allocation was equivalent to 39.8 per cent of recent audited revenues approved by the National Assembly.

“Out of the total conditional allocations from the revenue raised nationally, Sh16.1 billion will be transferred to the county governments and will be included in the budgets of county governments to be approved by the respective county assemblies,” Mohamud said.