Finance Bill
The Executive Committee Member (ECM) for Finance and Planning in Makueni County Government, Damaris Kavoi has refuted claims that the 2024-2025 finance bill has been withdrawn from the Makueni County Assembly.
MS Kavoi explained that the finance 2024-2025 was submitted to the county assembly once and it has not been withdrawn as indicated in local print, radio stations and social media on Monday. Further she said that the bill went through public participation and all views were included before they submitted it to the assembly for approval by 30/06/2024 as required by law.
“I want to say categorically that we have not withdrawn the 2024-2025 finance bill that was submitted to the Makueni County Assembly. It can be confirmed with the leadership of the assembly,” Kavoi said while addressing the media outside the Governor’s office in Wote town on Monday evening.
“As the county executive, we went through the public participation and listened to mwananchi and we incorporated their views on how we were going to raise revenue in the 2024-2025 financial year,” she added. She also revealed that in the new taxation hawkers will pay sh 40 daily and boda boda will pay sh 500 annually saying there were no changes.
Kavoi further said that due to hard economic times, they have allowed permit payments to be done in instalments by the business people in the county. Kavoi was accompanied by her Devolution and Infrastructure counterparts Japheth Mang’oka and Engineer Sabastian Kyoni respectively.