County revenue collections have improved, reveals a fact checking firm

A research by a Kenyan-based fact-checking firm, PesaCheck, has revealed that county governments have performed well in their revenue collection in the past three financial years.

The study reveals that county governments have been able to collect at least 10% of the total revenue shares they get. Equitable revenue shares and grants formulate the remaining percentage in the budgetary allocation of the counties.

As an instance, in 2013/2014 financial year, counties collected a total amount of sh26.3 billion, then Sh 33.9 in 2014/2015, and another Sh35 billion in the 2015/2016 financial year. The research adds that these figures represent 12.2%, 13% and 11.9% in the respective corresponding financial years.