Tharaka-Nithi County Passes kshs3.74 Billion Allocating The Largest Share To The Health Sector

Many counties passed their 2015/2016 budgets and Tharaka-Nithi county was not left behind. They passed a budget worth ksh3.74 billion.
To ensure that health issues are well catered for, the health sector was allocated the highest share of ksh950 million while roads ranked second with a share of ksh 500 million and county assembly closely followed by ksh 493 million.

Mr. Karani Laban who is the chairman of public accounts committee said that the ksh. 3.74 billion will be raised through the national government allocation (ksh. 3.5 billion) and revenue collection from the county (ksh 246 million).
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To reach the revenue collection target, Tharaka Nithi county public accounts committee chairman, Mr. Karani Laban, said that the county government will create a conducive environment to attract new businesses and also will create strong controls to ensure that no one evades payments of taxes. He said this while presenting the budget in the county assembly house.

The deputy governor and the executive for finance, Mr Mati Murithi, said that they have not composed the any donor funds in the budget because last year they included it but the money was not received leading to failure of some projects.