When it rains, it pours at City Hall as the county executive is once again on the spot for spending over Sh1.2 billion more than the funds requisitioned for and approved by the Controller of Budget (COB).
Nairobi MCAs on Thursday demanded that City Hall explain how the county overspend such a huge amount of money yet the governor claims all revenues are deposited in the County Revenue Fund (CRF).
Article 207 of the Constitution requires that county governments deposit their revenue collections into the CRF account.
But it was revealed before the County Assembly’s Budget and Appropriations Committee that the county government in the first quarter of the 2018/2019 financial year, between July and September, 2018, spent Sh4.81 billion for operations although they received only Sh3.52 billion from the CRF as approved by COB.
The county spent Sh4.27 billion on recurrent expenditure while a paltry Sh534.97 million went to development projects.
