Sonko refuses to let go of billions to city new teamGovernor Mike Sonko) has rejected a supplementary budget that handed over half of City Hall’s Sh36.9 billion budget to the new Nairobi Metropolitan Service (NMS). Yesterday, Sonko declined to assent to the bill and returned it to the County Assembly for review, albeit with changes. According to Sonko, the county reported a consolidated revenue of Sh26,010,475,528 in the last audited accounts for the 2018/2019 fiscal year. In the new changes, Sonko slashed a Sh8.9 billion recurrent expenditure of the NMS and an earlier allocated Sh2.9 billion development expenditure. He, however, redirected some Sh8.4 billion to the county's recurrent expenditure and Sh3.3 billion to City Hall’s development expenditure.

Source: Standard Digital April 16, 2020 06:33 UTC