Kisumu County Assembly approves 11.5 billion supplementary Budget.

 Kisumu County Assembly Speaker Onyango Oloo leaves the Chambers after the Assembly today passed the Supplementary Budget estimated at shs 11.5 billion-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo.

By Dickson Odhiambo

 December 5, 2018.

Kisumu County Assembly approves 11.5 billion supplementary Budget.

THE County Assembly of Kisumu has today approved a supplementary budget estimated at shs 11.5 billion.

This shows that there is an additional about shs 2.3 billion on top of the approved Budget of 2018/2019 financial year that was passed on April 30 this year which was about 9.2 billion.

The discussion towards the report on the Supplementary Budget by the Budget and Appropriation Committee begun at 9:00 am and ended at 6:22pm with an adjournment for only about one hour.

Tabling the report before the House for discussions and adoption, Budget and Appropriation Committee chairman Stephen Owiti said  the County Government came up with the Supplementary Budget after  establishing an open Balance carried forward from the financial year 2017/2018 to be Kenya shillings 1,435,837,076.

He adds that this money must be appropriated by the County Assembly so as to enable the County Government of Kisumu spend it in the financial year 2018/2019.

“This opening balance is meant to settle pending bills for contractors of goods, works and services rendered in the financial year 2017/2018.

He says the County Government of Kisumu received additional revenues totaling shs 806,077,940 from the National Government and development partners hence necessitated the coming up of the Supplementary Budget. 

Owiti while presenting the report also said the other reason for the supplementary Budget is because there was reduction of sh 126,179,625 from the approved budget estimates which affected some programs.

The report on the Supplementary Budget which has now been adopted and has now been passed as a bill thereby becoming an Act of the County Assembly of Kisumu  has the following categories of expenditure Personnel emoluments shs 3,877,112,345 representing 34 percent and operation and maintenance shs 2,968,089,931 representing 26 percent.

Development will take the huge chunk of shs 4,624,601,953 representing 40 percent, this brings it to shs 11,499,804,229.

It was a pull and push during the debate on the Supplementary Budget with some members of the County Assembly trying to oppose it but eventually it was passed unanimously after a serious heated debate at the Chambers.

Kisumu County Assembly Speaker Onyango Oloo who chaired the sessions all through finally directed the question on how many members supported the passage of the Bill while also asking those who are against it after which the majority passed it with amendments.

“The Kisumu County Supplementary Appropriation Bill 2018 is now an Act of the County Assembly of Kisumu to authorize the issuance of certain sums of money out of the County Revenue Fund, their application towards the service in the year ending on 30 June 2019 and to appropriate those funds for certain public services and purposes enacted today the December 5 at 6:22 pm,” Speaker Oloo says.

One of the beneficiaries of the Supplementary Budget which has just been passed are the Contractors who have been doing business with the County Government of Kisumu who demand millions of shillings from the County Government.

An estimated shs 770 million has been allocated for the contractors to be paid as pending bills in the Supplementary Budget while shs 215,238,661 has been approved for payment for development and Operation and Maintenance Expenditure to contractors of goods, works and services.

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