Nairobi MCAs Slash NMS Budget by Ksh6 Billion
NMS Director-General Mohammed Badi speaking in Mombasa on January 29, 2021.
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Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director-General, Mohamed Badi is set to work with a fixed budget in his quest to transform Nairobi County, after MCAs slashed his funds by Ksh6 billion.
NMS will be allocated Ksh21.18billion in the financial year 2021/22 from Ksh27.1 billion in the year ending June 2021.
The MCAs allocated themselves Ksh39.6 billion, Ksh2 billion extra from Ksh37.7 billion in the past year.
As detailed in the County Fiscal Strategy Paper, the Ksh21 billion given to Badi will fund the functions he inherited from Nairobi County in February 2020 during the tenure of former Governor Mike Sonko.
3 February 2021 - 10:53 am
Nairobi Metropolitan Services boss Mohamed Badi addresses President Uhuru Kenyatta on June 30, 2020, at Harambee House Nairobi while releasing a report of his first 100 days in office
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The Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) has recorded a decrease in revenue of Ksh55 Million from permit fees for buildings in the city.
According to a report Status of the Built Environment Report released by the Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK) on February 2, the decline in revenue was recorded between July and December 2020. The total permitting fees collected by the NMS in the first half was Ksh 215,942,168 which was a 20.3 percent decline from the Ksh 270,959,678 recorded in the first half of 2020 presumably due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic which saw a decline of activities in the built environment sector, the report by AAK disclosed.