Nairobi Members of County Assembly (MCAs) are poised to receive Ksh.651 million to use in securing car grants and mortgages.
The development comes after the Nairobi County Assembly passed the devolved unit’s maiden Ksh.39 billion complementary budget for the 2022/23 financial year.
The city MCAs will each receive Ksh.5 million, from the above-mentioned amount, which they will be expected to pay back in 48 months.
According to Nairobi County Assembly’s Chairman of the Finance, Budget and Appropriation Committee Wilfred Odallo, the approval of the supplementary budget is in line with Governor Johnson Sakaja’s vow to augment the city’s transportation infrastructure.
“We wanted to align ourselves to the issues of cars loans for the members and they will now have access to car loans and mortgages,” Odallo told the Standard newspaper.
“Contractors will also be paid because we have added a lot of money to the issue of pending bills. We have actually realigned everything according to the Governor’s manifesto.”
The Nairobi County Assembly has since set aside Ksh.125 million, as part of the supplementary budget, to acquire a fleet of electric buses to ease pollution in the city.
The department of public works, transport and infrastructure has likewise been allotted Ksh.100 million to use in commissioning new roads and bettering the county’s available transport and waste collection infrastructure.
The education, youth and sports committee will, on the other hand, receive Ksh.100 million to construct new stadiums.
The city’s health sector was issued with a Ksh.15.9 million conditional grant, under the Danida Universal Health Care (UHC) program to go towards improving health facilities across the county.
The Nairobi County Assembly’s emergency fund kitty was also increased from Ksh.100 million to Ksh.300 million while City Hall received an additional Ksh.149 million for use in administrative purposes.