Residents of Busia
County are up in arms
against their County government’s plans for a multimillion shillings budget to
construct a new governor’s residence. Instead, they are demanding that the money
should be allocated to cater for other pressing issues.
The
County leadership has taken from the public, part of Kshs. 3 billion budget
proposal for the next financial year but the residents have rebelled against
most of the proposals accusing the crafters of the budget of mischief and
impunity.
Speaking
to The Weekly Vision online in Busia town last week, Western Development Initiate
Association (WEDIA) boss Mr. Barasa said: “We are opposed to it as we see no
sense at all how a Busia governor's temporary residence can be allocated Ksh20
million for refurbishment, Ksh90 million for a new one and ksh10 million for
the purchase of land for the same when a county medical training college meant
to serve the whole County and beyond has been allocated a mere Ksh 82 million.
“The
budget is just un realistic and we demand that it be rejected, amended and be
brought back to the people as we did not vote for devolution to open doors for
governors to eat,” said Mr. Barasa adding that it was clear that the budgetary
proposals were deliberately bloated with mischief.
He says
that it also contains an ongoing project namely irrigation under feasibility
which is allocated Kshs1.7 billion where as budget for buying graders for the
county is only Kshs 86 million that defies a realistic costs at the current
market rates.
The WEDIA
boss said: “we know that a single grader costs around Kshs 30 million so with
Kshs 86 million only two or may be three will be purchased which of course
cannot serve the entire county of seven constituencies given the bad state of
our roads that require sufficient funds. More money should be allocated towards
the buying of graders so that the county is served efficiently.
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