Kiambu County is among the top counties to receive the highest funding from the government.
This is according to the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) that unveiled a new strategy for sharing revenue among counties. If approved, Kiambu will take Sh 8.78 billion from the about Sh 279 billion to be shared among the 47 counties.
CRA's Director of Research and Policy Lineth Oyugi stated that after introducing two new parameters to the current five parameters, which include the development factor and personnel emolument factor, more allocations will go to the counties.
"We have used a participatory approach in coming up with this recommendation. We went to 45 county governments and we were able to talk to the county executives” said Oyugi.
Kiambu has an estimated 1,623,282 people, with 49 per cent of this being male and 51 per cent female. The county has 12 constituencies.
"The current formula that we are using expires in June 2015. So we are going to give you the next formula which yesterday, the Chief Executive Officer launched with the Senate, but which the CRA is required to come up with recommendations," said CRA chair Micah Cheserem.
Nairobi still tops in the allocations where it will get Sh15 billion from this year's share of Sh 11.3 billion followed by Kakamega County which would get Sh 9.4 billion from Sh 7.7 billion.
The top five counties get the allocations based on population and they include Nairobi, Kakamega, Kiambu, Nakuru and Bungoma. The lowest shares go to Lamu, Isiolo, Samburu, Tana-River and Taita-Taveta in that order. Majority of the counties will get over Sh 2 billion higher in the next financial year.
Cheserem claimed that the new formula now awaits the Senate's approval and will be used for the coming three financial years.
This comes even after the senators continues with their 'Pesa Mashinani' campaign aimed at allocating more money to the counties.