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Funds misuse costs Nairobi Sh500m yearly in grants
Summary
Nairobi County continues to miss on at least Sh500 million in conditional grants every financial year due to misappropriation and disregarding conditions set for such funds.
Nairobi County Assembly Budget and Appropriations Committee chairperson Robert Mbatia said City Hall is losing 60 percent of what they are supposed to get as grants on flimsy reasons.
Mr Mbatia said the county government has missed on Sh500 million annual health grant for 500-bed capacity hospitals since 2014, translating to Sh3.5 billion.
Friday July 23 2021
By COLLINS OMULO
Summary
Nairobi County continues to miss on at least Sh500 million in conditional grants every financial year due to misappropriation and disregarding conditions set for such funds.
Monthly Stipend For Health Volunteers in Nairobi Increased
Over 6,000 community health volunteers in Nairobi will receive a monthly stipend starting next month.
City Hall has allocated Sh308 million towards the remuneration and National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) cover for the volunteers. At least 6,250 volunteer workers will receive Sh3,000 as a monthly stipend and Sh500 in health insurance.
This will see the monthly stipend increase from the current Sh1, 300 to Sh3, 000.
Sh100 million of the Sh308m will be used for the initial payment of the community health volunteers in the coming financial year starting Thursday.
Nairobi County Assembly Budget and Appropriations committee chairperson Mr Robert Mbatia said the programme was to be rolled out in 2019 but had to be withheld because of budget constraints.