Garissa MCAs on Thursday threatened to cut down the revised Sh7.9 billion budgetary allocation unless the executive amends the provisions to cater for payments of hired contractors.
Led by Mahat Osman, Jarajilla MCA, the county reps said the budget estimates must include among others provisions, debts owed to contractors together with other service providers.
The MCAs want the payments factored into the revised estimates before being brought to the house.
While addressing the press at the county assembly chambers, Mahat said they had shot down the budgetary estimates on June 30 because the county executive was to provide a payments plan and debt management policy but it did not.
Meanwhile, the MCAs have asked contractors and other hired service providers to provide a list of monies owed to them by the county government for consideration in the 2016/17 budget estimates.
“We are now asking the contractors across all the 30 wards in the six sub-counties to submit the amounts of money they are owed as from next week. The same submissions should be accompanied by official award letters and work completion certificates,” Osman said.
Osman added that the new terms are meant to weed out ghost contractors.