The Senate passed the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill, 2025, effectively giving the green light to an additional allocation of Kshs50.5 billion.
The Bill sought to provide for the transfer of conditional and unconditional allocations from the national government’s share of revenue and additional allocations from the proceeds of loans and grants from development partners to the county governments for the 2024/2025 Financial Year.
While seconding the Bill on behalf of the Chairperson of the Finance Committee Senator Ali Roba on the floor of the House during a special sitting held on Thursday, 27th March, Senator Boni Khalwale (Kakamega) hailed the Bill as a creative maverick that will enhance service delivery in the country.
“This Bill allocates Ksh7.54 billion to counties from the National Government’s share of the revenue raised nationally. Out of this, Ksh532 million will supplement the construction works of county headquarters in Nyandarua, Tana River, Tharaka Nithi, Isiolo and Lamu Counties,” Senator Khalwale informed the House.He added that allocating additional funds to counties will promote devolution by enabling counties to pay salary arrears to medical doctors, stipends to community health promoters as well as complete county aggregation and industrial parks.
The Bill allocates Ksh3.2 billion to the Community Health Promoters (CHPs) programme to be shared among the 47 counties, County Aggregation and Industrial Parks (CAIPs) programme in 19 counties has been allocated Ksh2 billion, while Basic Salary Arrears for County Government Health Workers has been awarded Ksh1.759 billion.
