By P, KNA
Siaya county government raised over Sh900 million in revenue during the 2024/2025 fiscal year, contrary to a recent report by the controller of budget.
According to the Siaya county secretary, Joseph Ogutu, the controller of budget’s county annual budget implementation review report that Siaya is among the lowest performing counties in revenue collection for the financial year ending June 30, 2025 grossly understated their actual performance.
In a statement to the media, Ogutu said the county collected Sh946,893,440/40 against an annual revenue target of Sh1,044,061,306.
“This translates to 90.6% performance and not 47% as reported by the controller of budget,” said the county secretary.
He said that the figures are verifiable and reflect the true status of the revenue performance as submitted to the office of the auditor general and copied to the office of the controller of budget.
The county secretary said the Siaya county government takes matters of financial reporting and accountability seriously and called on the office of the controller of budget to correct the record and ensure that future reports present an accurate and fair reflection of their performance.
“We further prevail upon the office of the controller of budget to republish the report once amended,” he said.
According to the county’s records, it raised Sh19,150,691 from Cess and Sh3,439,365 from Land rates.
The county further raised Sh151,563,105/50 from single business permits, Sh4,701,280 from conservancy administration, Sh10,248,810 (administration control fees and charges),Sh 6,169,641 (public health service fees), Sh11,671,066 ( Physical planning and development) and Sh25,608,268 from parking fees.
Other revenue raised were Sh33,462,668/40 from market fees, Sh17,629,219 from property rent, Sh14243660 from advertising, Sh643,174553 from hospital fees, Sh2,063,050 (hire of county assets, Sh2,128,550 (sale of assets) and Sh1,639513/50 from miscellaneous receipts.