Don’t deprive counties of cash, CoG says after revenue reduced
Council of Governor chairperson Anne Waiguru on Wednesday said they will not accept any move to reduce the counties' shareable revenue as proposed to Sh380 billion from an initial agreement of Sh400 billion, stating the move would cripple counties.
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00:00Because of how the finance bill was returned, the proposal we have been given is to cover the money that those counties had with those young people and 5 billion.
00:13That is, they expect to give the county 3.8 billion.
00:22And I would like to say that if we do that, we will have a huge problem of disparity in the counties.
00:37That is, the county will not be able to cover their expenses to the young people.
00:44Because if the money for drugs had been collected and deposited, I would have seen that the drugs would not have been in the counties.
00:56Also, the consultation of the doctors was cancelled because of the strike.
01:03And now the money for the counties has gone down.
01:06I would ask the Senate and the National Treasury to consider that the minimum that the counties should receive should not go below what they had in the year 2023-2024.
01:25And indeed, beyond that, the bottom line should be at the 400 billion, which was the minimum of basic services.
01:41To say that we should go back to 3.8 billion is to go back down to 5 billion.
01:46At that time, we had received 385 billion.
01:50There is also a job that the counties have been given now.
01:56First, this is the code of the Social Health Insurance Authority, which has stated that each county will pay 27% of their salaries.
02:08When they pay that, the government also takes out counter-funding.
02:12The NSSF has also agreed that it must pay that percentage because it is a business, you have seen it, it is a man's business.
02:20The civil servants have said that it is a business.
02:23All of that, the counties will also do.
02:26Now, if we deposit money from 3.85 billion, and we discuss the work that we have to do with that money,
02:35where will that money come from, or should we say we close the counties?
02:39I want to tell you, the Senate and the National Assembly, when we go to debate and discuss how to give that money,
02:47let's pray that everyone has left the county, the county is ours, and don't say we close the counties.
02:54Counties require additional funds.