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"speaker_name": "Amb. Ukur Yatani",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury and Planning",
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"content": "at the local level where its impacts are felt most. To start off the project, I have proposed to allocate Kshs100 million in the Financial Year 2020/2021. To sustain the drive against corruption, instil good governance practices and recover corruptly acquired assets, I have enhanced allocations to the institutions mandated to fight corruption. In particular, I have set aside Kshs3.1 billion for the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and a similar amount for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Kshs149 million for the Unclaimed Financial Assets Authority, Kshs158 million for Asset Recovery Agency, Kshs619.1 million for the Financial Reporting Centre, Kshs7.9 billion for the criminal investigations agencies, and Kshs5.2 billion for the Office of the Auditor-General. In support of the oversight and legislative roles of Parliament and access to justice, I have proposed allocations of Kshs37.3 billion to Parliament and Kshs18.1 billion to the Judiciary. In the Financial Year 2020/2021, county governments have been allocated Kshs369.9 billion comprising of Kshs316.5 billion as equitable share, Kshs13.7 billion as additional conditional grants allocations from the national Government, Kshs30.2 billion external loans and grants, and Kshs9.4 billion from the Roads Maintenance Levy Fund. Hon. Speaker, in February 2020, the national Government and the Nairobi City County Government entered into an agreement through which the county transferred some functions to the national Government. To manage the transferred functions, the national Government established the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS). In order to facilitate performance of the transferred functions, the NMS has been allocated Kshs26.4 billion in the Financial Year 2020/2021 comprising of Kshs15.95 billion from Nairobi City County’s equitable revenue share for the Financial Year 2020/2021, and Kshs660 million as additional conditional allocations related to the transferred functions. The balance of Kshs9.78 billion will come from the county’s local revenue. The NMS has also been allocated Kshs1.5 billion from the national Government’s equitable revenue share to finance the Mukuru Renewal Project. Further to the Presidential Directive of February 2019, the National Treasury, jointly with other stakeholders, has finalised the development of an Integrated Revenue Management System for county governments. The system, which is aimed at eliminating leakages and high revenue collection costs of the counties, is expected to be in place by the end of the Financial Year 2020/21. Hon. Speaker, I am aware that the County Governments (Revenue Raising Process) Bill, 2018, which was sponsored by the National Treasury, has recently lapsed. In this context, I have re-submitted the draft Bill to the Attorney-General so that it may be re-introduced in Parliament. The principle underlying the proposed legislation is that counties may not impose, vary or waive a tax, fee or any other charge in a way that materially and unreasonably prejudices national economic policies, economic activities across county boundaries, and national mobility of goods, services, capital or labour. I appeal to Hon. Members to re-consider the merits of this proposed legislation, which was developed through a widely consultative approach that incorporated all key actors, including institutions of Parliament. Hon. Speaker, in line with the Presidential Directive on the settlement of pending bills, Kshs36.7 billion, representing 71.5 per cent of the total eligible bills verified by the Auditor- General, has been settled by county governments as at May 2020. I urge the county governments to clear the outstanding bills by 30th June 2020 and ensure no further build-up of expenditure arrears."
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