Counties need at least Ksh.450B to run efficiently, governors tells CRA

The Council of Governors (CoG) has maintained that counties need Ksh.450 billion allocated revenue for the 2024/2025 financial year to carry out development projects.

Kakamega Governor Fernandes Barasa, who chairs CoG’s finance committee, on Sunday, insisted that the Ksh.391 billion counties received last year is not enough.

“The national government is proposing Ksh.391 billion which is very little; it is just a Ksh.6 billion increase. The Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) is now proposing Ksh.413 billion; it is not enough,” Barasa said.

The Kakamega governor urged senators to support the push for more revenue to ensure counties are adequately equipped to execute their functions effectively.

“We need Ksh.450 billion because we have responsibilities which the national government has given back to counties such as medical equipment services. That is our irreducible minimum,” Barasa noted.

He was speaking during a church service in Mumias.