Azimio Counties Dominate List of Poor Performers in Revenue Collection

Azimio Counties lead in the list of counties that have performed dismally in revenue allocation for the financial year July 2023 to June 2024 according to the latest report by the Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o.

The report, which was published in August 2024, highlights some of the counties that have collected little revenue for that financial year.

Among the counties that were mentioned by Nyakang’o for least revenue collection are Nyandarua at 42.1 percent, Machakos at 46.5 percent, Mandera at 50.8 percent, Nyamira at 53.8 percent, Bungoma at 55.8 percent, Kajiado at 56.1 percent, and Busia at 56.9 of annual targets.

From the above list, the Azimio counties that performed poorly in their own source revenue collection are Nyamira, Machakos, Busia, and Kajiado.

Controller of Budget’s advice to Counties

The controller of budget advised county governments, which recorded performance below 70 percent of their annual target, to develop revenue enhancement strategies.

She further advised those counties to set realistic and achievable targets in the next financial year to avoid accumulating bills in the coming financial year,

On the other hand, out of the 47 counties, 10 counties outperformed their own-source revenue annual targets.

The ten counties include Turkana at 241.2 percent, Vihiga at 136.3 percent, Kirinyaga at 118.4 percent, Lamu at 116.2 percent, Nandi at 113 percent, Wajir at 110 percent, Garissa at 108.2 percent, Nyeri at 106.1 percent, Samburu at 104.1 percent, and Murang’a at 100.2 percent.

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Controller of Budget: List of Counties that surpassed their revenue targets

1. Turkana’s initial target was Ksh 220,000,000 and it attained an Actual Revenue of Ksh 530,645,056
2. Kirinyaga’s initial target was Ksh 550,0000,000 and it attained an Actual Revenue of Ksh 651, 105, 565
3. Lamu’s initial target was Ksh180,000,000 and it attained an Actual Revenue of Ksh 209,102,758
4. Nandi’s initial target was Ksh 558,329,869 and it attained an Actual Revenue of  Ksh 630,727,156
5. Wajir initial’s target was Ksh 150,000,000 Actual Revenue and it attained an Actual Revenue of Ksh164, 953, 671
6. Garissa’s initial target was Ksh 230,000,000 and it attained an Actual Revenue of Ksh 248,969,049
7. Nyeri’s initial target was Ksh 1,326,000,000 and it attained an Actual Revenue Ksh of 1,407,546,107
8. Samburu’s initial target was Ksh 256,027,400 and it attained an Actual Revenue of KSh 266,583,924
9. Murang’a’s initial target was Ksh 1,115,000,000 and it attained an Actual Revenue of Ksh 1,116,795,730
10. Vihiga’s initial target was Ksh 248,083,481and it attained an Actual Revenue Ksh of 338,057,178

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Nyakang’o noted that County governments generated a total of Kshs.58.95 billion from their own source revenue (OSR), which was 72.8 percent of the annual target of Kshs.80.94 billion.

She further highlighted that the realized OSR is an improvement compared to Kshs.37.81 billion generated in the Financial Year 2022/2023.

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