{"id":919835,"date":"2022-01-26T19:20:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/develop-policies-to-improve-revenue-nyandarua-county-assembly-told\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T19:20:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:20:21","slug":"develop-policies-to-improve-revenue-nyandarua-county-assembly-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/26\/develop-policies-to-improve-revenue-nyandarua-county-assembly-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Develop policies to improve revenue, Nyandarua County assembly told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/verk2gbqjupuvc8wrq61f0146d6e754.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Nyandarua County Assembly.<\/strong> [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Nyandarua MCAs have pointed out the need to improve the county\u2019s own source of revenue.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Njabini-Kiburu MCA, who chairs the Budget and Appropriation Committee, Kiiru Gachomba said the county relies heavily on funding from the national government while it has unutilised resources.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to achieve our financial targets, we need to come up with better ways to increase funds collected. This is achievable if we make good use of the resources,\u201d Mr Gachomba said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA good example is Sasumua dam in Nyandarua which supplies water to Nairobi county, and Lake Olbollosat is the only lake in Central. We should collect funds from such resources for our county\u2019s development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Z5Yk3ewh_qY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nyandarua governor Francis Kimemia on his legacy in Nyandarua county\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z5Yk3ewh_qY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gachomba was presenting the County Budget Review Outlook Paper (CBROP) for Financial Year 2022 to the House.\n<\/p>\n<p>Wanjohi MCA\u00a0Isaac Kung\u2019u sought clarification on why the Water and Trade departments received the least funds yet they are crucial departments.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Kanjuiri Ridge MCA\u00a0Suleiman Kihika, who also chairs the Committee on Finance and Economic Planning, insisted on the need to have fumigation services for the PSVs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic Service Vehicles need to have fumigation certificates but there are no such services in our county. PSV owners are forced to seek those services from the neighbouring Laikipia County,\u201d said Suleiman.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch services need to be enacted in the Finance Bill to ensure they are available.\u201d \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Suleiman who represented the majority leader,\u00a0Edinald Wambugu, also tabled the County Fiscal Strategic Paper, the Debt Management Strategic Paper and the Medium-term plan to the floor of the House.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>The tabled documents will be interrogated by the Committee on General Oversight. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001435534\/develop-policies-to-improve-revenue-nyandarua-county-assembly-told\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyandarua County Assembly. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] Nyandarua MCAs have pointed out the need to improve the county\u2019s own source of revenue.\u00a0 Njabini-Kiburu MCA, who chairs the Budget and Appropriation Committee, Kiiru Gachomba said the county relies heavily on funding from the national government while it has unutilised resources.\u00a0 \u201cIn order to achieve our financial targets, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}