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GOVERNOR MEETS ROAD CONTRACTORS

H.E Governor Mutula Kilonzo Junior and the Deputy Governor H.E Lucy Mulili today received an update from contractors building roads in parts of Makueni County. The contractors working on the Kikima, Kali, Utangwa, Kyambalasi road, Tawa, Itangini and Emali Nduundune and other roads presented their challenges to the Governor. The main issue is delayed payments from the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KERRA), a National Government agency that oversees development of rural roads in Kenya. The lack of funds has caused delays in completion of the roads.
The contractors emphasized that delayed payments, some of which are two years old have negatively affected them and slowed progress. They expressed commitment to complete the roads if payments are made in good time. The contractors cited the high cost of credit and negative rating from financial institutions due to late loan repayments on credit facilities advanced to the contractors.
H.E the Governor promised that his office would assist in presenting their challenges to the national government to enable them continue to work. The Governor said that as the Chairman of the Council of Governors committee on Legal Affairs and Intergovernmental relations, he would seek a collaborative engagement with the National government to unlock the stalemate. The contractors promised to mobilize their teams to fix problem areas ahead of works to make the roads motorable in the time being.
The County Commissioner Ms Beverly Opwora said that some of the roads lead to security installations and required urgent intervention. The County Commissioner asked traders who have encroached on road reserves to give way for the road contractors.
The contractors prepared the outstanding schedule of payments to seek intervention in settling of their bills. The meeting was attended by Amip Patel from Kabuito Contractors, Geoffery Ndambuki and Ngare Mahinda of Coastal Enterprises, Wan Wengbin of Shengli Engineering, Terene Enterprises, the KERRA Regional Director Eng. Anastasia Ndunda and KERRA Resident Engineers for Emali and Kikima – Kali roads.
 

Final Makueni County FY 2022-23 Program Based Budget

The Budget estimates for Financial Year 2022/23 are prepared in line with the County Fiscal Strategy Paper 2023. The FY 2022/23 Budget will be the fifth budget to implement the Second County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP 2018-22). The development theme for FY 2022/23 is “building community resilience for sustainable development and prosperity”
The FY 2022/23 budget has been prepared to stimulate the growth of the local economy and has been guided by the following principles; Deepening Equitable Development.; Accelerating Community-Led Development; Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Building; Accelerating post-COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery; Enhanced Access to Universal Healthcare Services and Universal Water Coverage

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FY 2022-23 Makueni County Citizen Budget

The FY 2022/23 Budget will be the fifth budget to implement the Second County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP 2018-22). The development theme for FY 2022/23 will be “building community resilience for sustainable development and prosperity”. The theme pushes for revitalizing economic development at the community level by engaging citizens while at the same time building the resilience and the adaptive capacity of the community members. This is in line with the Annual Development Plan, County Budget Review and Outlook Paper and the 2022 County Fiscal Strategy Paper

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Governor Mutula flags off Shs 90M Medical Supplies

Makueni Governor Mutula Kilonzo Junior and KEMSA Chief Executive Officer Terry Ramadhani on Monday flagged off Shs 90M worth of medical supplies for all 238 health facilities in Makueni.
The event took place at the Mother and Child Hospital, Wote, and was also graced by Senator Daniel Maanzo and Deputy Governor Lucy Mulili.
The supply is the Financial Year 2022/2023 quarter one order of health commodities and constitutes of essential and specialist drugs, non-pharmaceuticals and laboratory commodities.
Governor Mutula Jnr said the huge investment in healthcare is geared towards attaining the highest possible health standards in a manner responsive to the Makueni population needs.
The governor said his administration is committed to increasing efficiency in the management of the health commodity supply chain to ensure sustainability and resilience.
“To this end, we intend to enhance health commodity stock visibility through automating inventory management to achieve end-to-end visibility. This shall enable faster turnaround time for quantification, ordering and distribution of health products and technologies to ensure continuous availability,” he said.
To enhance efficiency and effectiveness in healthcare provision, the governor last month commissioned a unique model of operation dubbed Reverse Referral, which entails medical specialists going to the field to offer specialist services in remote facilities.
This, he said, will reduce the pressure at the county refferal hospital and the expenses incurred by residents travelling all the way to Wote.
 

RESOLUTION OF THE INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ON 23rd SEPTEMBER 2022 AT PANARI HOTEL, NAIROBI

During the introductory meeting between the Government of Makueni County and Development Partners working in the county, the following resolutions were agreed upon;

 

1. The county government will establish a County Development Partners Caucus to facilitate periodic engagement between the county government and the development partners.

 

2. The county government will work to strengthen the Sector Working Groups and establish Development Partners Sector Working Groups and ensure development partners working in the respective sectors engage periodically

 

3. That the there is need to enhance the capacity of the County Assembly on the policy making process and setting legislative agenda since the development outcomes will be impacted by the policy and legislative agenda in place.

 

4. The county government will work with the development partners to develop joint project proposals for fundraising.

 

5. The county government and the development partners will work together in the preparation of the third generation of the County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP 2023 -27) and integrate the development partner’s priorities in the county development agenda.

 

6. The county government will establish cost-sharing and sustainability mechanisms to ensure initiatives by development partners are sustainable after phasing off.

 

7. The county government commits to support and reengineer the cooperative movement as a vehicle for socio-economic transformation through forward and backward linkages in various sectors.

 

8. The county government will work with the development partners to strengthen devolution to ensure further decentralization of services to the lowest level and deepening community public participation model.

MAKUENI COUNTY FY 2021-2022 Q3 BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION REPORT

The Budget implementation report highlights progress made in implementation of the Makueni County Government Budget for the Financial Year 2021/2022, for the period ending 31st March 2022. It also presents the key challenges that faced budget implementation during the reporting period and appropriate recommendations to overcome these challenges.

The total revenues mobilized in the first 9 months of FY 2021/22 were Kshs 5,424,462,259.12 representing 48% of the total budgeted revenues for the Financial Year. The overall County expenditure for the period amounted to Kshs. 5,216,043,457.05 against a Revised Budget of Kshs 11,251,039,704.02 representing an absorption rate of 46% for the first 9 months of FY 2021/2022. The recurrent expenditures were Kshs 3,893,397,095.95 against a revised budget of Kshs 6,979,637,023.54 which translated to an absorption rate of 56%. The development expenditure for the first 9 months of the FY 2021/22 were Kshs 1,322,646,361.11 against a revised budget of Kshs 4,271,402,680.48 representing an absorption rate of 31%.

The Budget was the third to implement the CIDP 2018-22 and was anchored on the County Government agenda of socio economic transformation with a broad focus on community economic empowerment for increased household income.

The overall revenue performance as at 31st March 2022 stood at 54%. The County had received 58% of the Equitable share, 0% conditional allocations, 35% loans and grants and had mobilized 44% of the targeted own source revenues.

The overall County Expenditure for the period ending 31st March 2022 amounted to Ksh. 5,216,043,457.05 translating to an overall absorption of 46%.

Governor Mutula Orders Specialist Medics to Leave Offices for the Field

Governor Mutula Kilonzo Jnr has ordered more than 58 medical heads out of their comfortable offices in Wote to offer services to wananchi in local health facilities.
 
Through a programme dubbed Makueni Public Health Week, the medical officers will be required to routinely choose one or more health facilities in the county and camp there for a whole week offering specialized healthcare services.
 
Directors and Medical Superintendents in the Health Services department will lead the campaign and monitor how health services and medicines are dispensed at the facilities.
 
Governor Mutula Jnr said the decision was borne from the realization that the county has a huge number of talented medical specialists whose services are not available to the residents.
 
He said it was pitiful that such specialists operate only from the county headquarters and in offices while residents are forced to seek services elsewhere at exorbitant costs. 
 
The Public Health Week begins on Wednesday 14th September 2022 in Mbooni sub-county.

MAKUENI COUNTY FY 2021-2022 ANNUAL BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION REPORT

The Budget implementation report highlights progress made in implementation of the Makueni County Government for the Financial Year 2021/22, ending 30th June 2022. The FY 2021/22 Budget is the fourth budget to implement the CIDP 2018-22 and was anchored on the County Government agenda of socio economic transformation with a broad focus on community economic empowerment for increased household income.
The County Government had an original budget of Kshs 9,763,795,153.00 which was revised upwards to Kshs 11,544,836,717.43 through the revised budget estimates 2. The budget was comprised of recurrent budget Kshs 7,269,884,132.55 (63%) and development Kshs 4,274,952,584.88 (37%)
The FY 2021/22 Revised Budget 2 was funded from four main sources namely; Equitable share – Kshs 8,132,783,562.00 (70%), FY 2020/21 Reallocation funds – Kshs 1,501,673,251.43 (13%), Own Source Revenue – Kshs 1,091,306,710.00 (10%) and conditional allocations loans and grants – Kshs 819,073,194.00 (7%).
The overall revenue performance for FY 2021/22 was 94% (Kshs 10,882,719,599.60) out of the total budgeted revenues of Kshs 11,544,836,717.43. The performance reduced by 1 percent as compared to the 95 percent recorded in FY 2020/21.
The total expenditures for the Government for the year ending 30th June 2022 was Kshs 8,607,340,676.10 against a budget of Kshs 11,544,836,717.43. This represented an overall absorption of 75 percent a reduction from 79 percent recorded in FY 2020/21.

 

 

Makueni, NACADA Agree to a Joint Offensive Against Drug Abuse

National Authority for the Campaign Against Drug Abuse(NACADA) has pledged support to Makueni County in dealing with alcoholism and drug abuse which is highly prevalent in the county.
 
During a courtesy call to Deputy Governor Lucy Mulili in her office, Wote, on Monday, NACADA Chief Executive Officer Victor Okioma said the authority will support Makueni in policy and legal frameworks, training of recovery coaches to mentor victims as well as capacity building for the personnel involved in the campaign.
 
Mulili said the County Government is working to establish a recovery centre where victims will be treated and fully rehabilitated.