Suba South MP Caroli Omondi makes his contributions during a past session in the National Assembly.
The Executive will be required to provide a complete sector-based informative summary of expenditure estimates in each sub-county if MPs pass a Bill currently before the House.
The Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill, 2025 seeks to make the budget open and transparent where each constituency will know what is allocated to them in terms of infrastructure development.
The Bill, sponsored by Suba South MP Caroli Omondi, seeks to break the current practice where Budget estimates are presented in blocks, making it difficult to know what each sub-county is entitled to.
“Prepare analyses of the estimates of the national government expenditure and the estimates of expenditure for the Judiciary and Parliament and report to the Committees of Parliament on whether or not the estimates are in respect of each of the sub-county administrative units,” reads a new section 10 that the Bill intends to introduce.
John Mbadi the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning.
The lawmaker argues that the new amendments, if adopted by the House and signed into law, will assist Members of Parliament to review and understand the form and content of the Budget.
“What I’m trying to cure is a situation where some areas get allocations for roads each financial year and they are well developed while some areas have no infrastructure at all,” Mr Omondi said.
He pointed out that if the Bill becomes law, at the point the National Assembly is considering the budget, they will know whether the roads, healthcare facilities and other infrastructural development are factored in the budget.
Transparency
Mr Omondi said that the current block presentation of the figures does not promote principles of equity, openness, sustainability, transparency, inclusivity, non-discrimination, fairness and access by the public to timely and accurate information
“The amendments obligate the National Treasury, the Budget and Appropriations committee of the National Assembly and the Parliamentary Budget Office to ensure the inclusion of a sector-based informative summary is to be included in the Appropriations Bill introduced in the National Assembly,” reads the Bill.
It further reads: “The objective of these amendments is give effect to the provisions and principles of the Constitution on equity, openness, sustainability, transparency, inclusivity, non-discrimination, fairness and access by the public to timely and accurate information affecting the nation under Articles 10, 35, 201 and 232.”
If approved, the lawmaker says, it will eliminate corruption and the nightmare of pending bills that both the National Assembly and the county governments have been grappling with since all the monies for a particular project will be ring-fenced.
“From the onset of a new financial year, it will be known that constituency X has this amount of money for development of infrastructure hence it eliminates some games on allocation of resources across the country,” Mr Omondi said.
He said the move will also promote equal development across the country as constituencies which will miss out on infrastructural development in one financial year will be earmarked to benefit in the next one.
