Nakuru County on the spot over Ksh.2B drop in revenue within a year

The Senate Liaison Committee will move to investigate how revenue collection in Nakuru County dipped from Ksh3.6B to Ksh1.6B within a year.

The committee, which brings together chairpersons of various committees converged in Sawela Lodge in Naivasha, where they noted failure by the Nakuru County executive to respect court orders in regard to the on-going War Memorial Hospital.

According to Senator Mohammed Chute, the Chair of the Committee, the drop in revenue collection in the county was alarming and needed further investigations.

The Marsabit Senator said that the Senate would do its oversight role establishing how the revenue collection dropped in a span of one year.

“The revenue has gone down to Ksh.2.6 million. If it is full year… then this is very serious,” said Chute.

He accused the County Assembly of siding with the Executive and failing in its oversight mandate leading to the current crisis.

This was echoed by the Senate deputy majority leader and Nakuru Senator Tabitha Keroche who called for a review on how the revenue collection had dropped in a short period.

The Nakuru Senator trained her guns on the county assembly noting that it had failed in its duty of oversight leading to the current crisis in the county.

On the hospital saga, she said that over 50 patients whose medical cover was under the facility were stranded with nowhere to go.

She termed the on-going occupation of the hospital by the county as inhumane and illegal while calling on the Senate committees on land and health to intervene.

Keroche, who has been vocal on the issue, noted that the protracted dispute was causing families and patients’ untold suffering and eroding investors’ confidence.