Finance CS Henry Rotich leaves treasury building for Parliament before presenting the 2017/2018 draft budget policy statement on March 30, 2017. [Photo: the-star.co.ke]Each Kenyan has received an average of Sh31,608 annually from the exchequer in the last four years, the National Treasury has said.The Treasury has released Sh1.6 trillion to the 47 counties since 2013. It released Sh196.7 billion in the 2013-14 financial year, but the figure rose to Sh231.1 billion in the subsequent fiscal year.In the last two financial years, disbursements to the counties rose from Sh275.2 billion in 2015-16 to Sh304.2 billion in 2016-17, the Star reports.Treasury on Sunday released a public statement on the status of payments to the county governments. It detailed unit allocations per person in each of the counties.The calculations are based on each county’s population, which partly forms the basis upon which allocations are pegged.According to the National Treasury tabulations on payments per person, a resident of Isiolo county received the highest payment of Sh81,429 per year. The county has received Sh11.7 billion since 2013.Ironically, a resident of Nairobi, which has received the highest allocation at Sh49.7 billion for the last four years, got Sh15,821 annually. This represented the least take-home per resident. Nairobi has a huge population.Kiambu is the second lowest-ranking country in terms of payments per person. Each person got Sh18,580 annually out of the cumulative Sh30.2 billion to the county while Meru resident received Sh18,982 every year from its Sh25.8 billion in four years.In Nakuru, every resident got Sh20,521 per year from its Sh33 billion while Kakamega resident had Sh21,300 from its Sh35.4 billion. Murang’a was allocated Sh20.5 billion with each resident getting Sh21,779. Bungoma received Sh30 billion, but each resident had Sh21,788.

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