Nairobi, Turkana, Nakuru, Kilifi, and Kakamega will receive the lion share of the Sh316.5 billion allocated to the 47 counties in the 2019/20 financial year.
The big boys club is closely followed by Kiambu, Bungoma, Kitui, Narok and Meru counties in that order.
Mombasa County is the biggest loser in the new county allocation since it is set to receive Sh1.2 billion less than it did in 2018/19 when it got Sh8.2 billion.
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This is the sixth time Nairobi, Turkana and Kakamega are getting the highest shares since the advent of devolution in 2013.
But it is the first time that Kilifi and Nakuru have joined the list of counties getting large shares of the counties cash.
Nairobi will get Sh15.9 billion compared to the Sh 15.7 billion it received in the last financial year, while Turkana will get Sh10.7 billion up from the Sh 10.5 billion.
Nakuru will be the biggest beneficiary, having received an increment of Sh1 billion from the Sh9.4 billion it got in 2018/19 FY.
Kilifi will get Sh10.4 billion, about Sh400 million less that it received in the previous year while Kakamega will pocket Sh10.4 billion, an increment of Sh100 million.
But Lamu, Tharaka Nithi, Elgeyo Marakwet, Isiolo and Embu counties will get the lowest share of the revenue allocation.
The funding of Lamu will was reduced from sh 3.5 billion to 2.6 billion in 2019/20 budget.
Tharaka Nithi will have an increase from Sh3.6 billion to 3.9 billion, while Elgeyo Marakwet will get 3.8 billion down from 3.7 billion.
Isiolo and Embu counties will get 4.2 billion and 4.3 respectively.
The total amount disbursed to the 47 devolved units will, however, increase to Sh378 billion, when conditional grants for strategic projects and money for the equalization fund is factored into the allocations.
The devolved units will receive Sh22.8 billion as conditional grants and another Sh38 billion as loans and grants from development partners.
“Due to delayed enactment of both the Division of Revenue Bill, 2019 and the County Allocation of Revenue bill (CARA) the cumulative disbursement for the first quarter to the 47 county governments,” Mandera Senator Mohammed Mahamud, who chairs the senate committee on Finance and Budget said in the report.
“The National Treasury should disburse the cumulative disbursement for the first quarter within (7) days after approval of the cash disbursement schedule to the county government,” he added.
The amount assigned to the counties is an equivalent to 36 percent of most recent audited revenues which had been approved by the National Assembly for the financial year 2014/15.
Other allocations to be seconded to the county government are an additional allocation of Sh6.2 billion to facilitate the leasing of medical equipment.
Another grant is the allocation for level five hospitals at a cost of Sh4.3 billion which will be distributed to the 47 county governments.
The level five hospitals will play a key role in the implementation of the Universal Health Care programme which has already been piloted in Kisumu, Isiolo, Machakos, and Nyeri counties.
The quarrelsome implementation of the Road Maintenance Fuel Levy Fund has been given Sh 8.98 billion which is an increase from Sh8.3 billion in the financial year 2018/19.
Upgrading and rehabilitation of village polytechnics has been allocated Sh2 billion.
The counties of Isiolo Lamu, Nyandarua, Tana River and Tharaka Nithi will get an additional allocation of Sh485 million to supplement construction county headquarters.
Further, the bill proposes budget ceilings on recurrent expenditure in the financial year 2019/2020 for county assemblies and county assemblies as sh 26 million and sh 33 million respectively.
