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Win for county governments as revenue grows to Sh400bn

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National Assembly Budget and Appropriations Committee Chairman Ndindi Nyoro addressed the media at Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, Nairobi on November 14, 2023, after their sitting on the budget estimations. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Counties will in the Financial year 2024/2025 be smiling all the way to the bank after parliament reached a deal to allocate them the highest amount of shareable revenue since the advent of devolution.

The Senate and National Assembly on Monday reached an agreement on the division of revenue share where Counties will now be allocated Sh400.1 billion of shareable revenue in the financial year 2024/2025. This amount is Sh15 billion higher than the amount allocated in the current financial year where counties were allocated Sh385 billion.

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