According to a new report by the outgoing team at the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee (IGRTC), all 47 counties in Kenya have assets worth over Sh110 billion and liabilities running to Sh57 billion.
“According to the new report, Counties have assets worth Ksh 110B and liabilities running to Ksh 57B and we are grateful to this committee for a job well done,” Cabinet Secretary for Devolution Eugene Wamalwa said while speaking in Panorama Hotel in Naivasha during the handing over ceremony.
According to the CS the team had done a commendable job in identifying the assets which were at risk of being grabbed. Wamalwa noted that the committee had managed to identify 62,342 parcels of land, over 70,000 buildings and 2,600 cars owned by defunct councils.
To compile the report, the committee used Sh400 million against a budget of Ksh 4 Billion that had been projected by the defunct Transition Authority (TA), this came as the committee tenure ended with a new team taking over the running of the committee on a six-year tenure.
The CS questioned the methods used to come up with the proposed budgets noting that of the Sh4 billion proposed, the outgoing committee only used sh400 million. “The rehabilitation of the old Nairobi-Nanyuki railway line used Sh1 billion from the proposed Sh21 billion and it seems that there is a big problem in some departments,” he said.
“We are grateful that the IGRTC has helped solve some disputes between government institutions as the government has paid millions to lawyers during court cases,” he noted.
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