Select Committee report on implementation status of Ksm County Cess Act,2025 adopted

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                 The County Assembly of Kisumu after today's afternoon session-Photo and Story By Dickson Odhiambo 

September 23, 2026

Select Committee report on implementation status of Ksm County Cess Act,2025 adopted 

The County Assembly of Kisumu has today adopted a report on the Implementation status of the Kisumu County Cess Act of 2025.

The Report was read and debated upon before the County Assembly of Kisumu then adopted by Members of the County Assembly of Kisumu who were present during today’s afternoon session.

Tom Nyaoke,  a member of the Select Committee on the Implementation status of the Kisumu County  Cess Act, 2025 read the report  and was seconded by Kabonyo Kanyagwal ward Member of the County Assembly Benny Oiko Pete.

The Kisumu County Cess Act, 2025 intended to streamline Cess collection within the Agriculture, Livestock, fisheries and related value chains as well as harmonizing Cess rates across sub-counties within Kisumu County.

It was also meant to seal revenue leakages and enhance the Kisumu County own source revenue.

However, one year since its enactment, the Act has remained either partially or wholly unimplemented and raised concern over the continued reliance on outdated cess schedules, inconsistent charging mechanisms affecting farmers, transporters and traders.

There have also been weak enforcement structures at designated collection points and the attendant loss of potential revenue critical to agricultural support programs and the County’s broader development priorities.

The implementation report being adopted, the County Assembly Deputy Speaker who chaired the Session has directed that it be forwarded to the Executive wing of the County Government of Kisumu for its speedy implementation.

The Select Committee has observed that although preliminary sensitization and cess collection measures have commenced, full operationalization remains incomplete due to limited stakeholder engagement and inadequate digital integration.

“The absence of real-time linkage between IRMS and weighbridge systems increases the risk of revenue leakage, under-declaration and delayed remittance,” Part of the report says.

The Committee has recommended that the County Executive Committee Member in charge of Finance and Economic Planning and ICT and Agriculture in collaboration with the ICT directorate, fully integrate cess collection into IRMS and link it with weighbridge and other relevant systems while completing stakeholder sensitization across all affected value chains, to strengthen, monitoring, compliance, accountability and revenue collection under the Kisumu County Cess Act 2025.

 

 

 

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