Governor James Orengo's first budget in office realised an improvement in regard to own-source revenue performance.
This is according to the latest report by the Controller of Budget ( COB) that analysed the budget performance of the 47 county governments for the financial year 2022/23.
The just released CoB report indicates that Orengo's administration outshone his predecessor after his county government generated Sh508 million in revenue.
Of the amount, Sh402 million is own-source revenue ( OSR) and Sh105. 81 million in appropriations in aid ( AIA).
According to the controller of budget (CoB), the amount represented an increase of 17 per cent compared to Sh434.38m realised in the financial year 2021/22.
"It was 72.5 per cent of the annual target and 7.3 per cent of the equitable revenue share disbursed during the period," the report read in part.
The own-source revenue includes arrears and penalties charged on fees and levies from the previous financial year of Sh49.16 million.
Revenue streams that led to a stellar performance by the Orengo-led administration in regard to own-source revenue according to the controller of budget included the health sector which emerged top.
Hospital revenue topped the list of contributors to the revenue streams with a total amounting to Sh168 million.
This translated to 33 per cent while single business permits injected Sh78 million at 15 per cent.
Market fees generated Sh36 million at 7 per cent while other sources contributed Sh 121 million at 24 per cent.
The CoB report revealed that overall contributions from the health sector were Sh 279 million, representing 55 per cent of the overall collections in FY 2022/23.
The county's approved second supplementary budget for FY 2022/23 was Sh8.6 billion which comprised Sh 2.85 billion ( development) and Sh 5.78 billion for recurrent expenditure.
To finance the budget, the county expected to receive Sh6.97 billion as the equitable revenue share of revenue raised nationally and raise its own source revenue of Sh 590.26 million.
