Budget and Appropriation Committee through the committee chairperson Hon. Ndindi Nyoro has considered the supplementary estimates for the financial year 2020/2023 to entirely align the government expenditure and revenue so that as we close the financial year with realistic figures in terms of revenues by the 30th of June.

“We’re just aligning government expenditure with the revenues that we anticipate that we’ll be collecting by the close of the financial year, which is closing in the next few days by the 30th of June. So, what we are doing number one is to make sure that we have facilitated the government departments that need facilitation.’’ Hon Ndindi echoed.

Hon Nyoro stated that the committee has pumped more funds into the education sector to eliminate the hitches concerning funds.

“We are putting some more money in education because you are our treasury to spend that money and come for ratification later because we didn’t want any hitch in regards to the payments of salaries for our JSs teachers.

Further, Hon Nyoro stated that water ongoing projects are of a big concern and the committee has taken a keen interest

“We are also taking on other areas, for example, the ongoing water project, the ongoing other projects of this government so that we make sure as we close the year, there is no hitch and of course, we try to minimize as much as possible the accrual of pending bills as we close this year, and we go to the next financial year.”

Nyoro has stated that last week’s budget was crucial and consequential to the current economy.

“That is why I want to say that the budget that we actually did the budget that we passed in the House last week is a very, very consequential budget for our economy very, very far-reaching in our education sector, very strong in infrastructure, and it is a budget that will definitely help our country to move forward in terms of the economy.” Hon Nyoro added.

The Kiharu legislator disclosed that the committee allocated a heavy budget for the education sector by doubling the allocation from last year’s budget.

“We have allocated 27.4% of our budget to education, which is about 630 billion Kenya shillings and out of that money. We made sure that we have capacitated the higher education Rosebud by doubling the allocation from last year’s allocation of 15 billion and we allocated 30 billion Kenya shillings.”

In addition, Nyoro said the government is considering recruiting more teachers and on the same note adding more finance to the public service commission to hire teachers and implementing internship stipends for fresh graduates in government offices.

“We have also added money for JSs and we’ll be hiring more teachers. There is also another very important item which is the house and the executive. We saw it fit to add. We have given more money to Public Service Commission for the hiring of 8,000 government interns who will be sent to various ministries to various departments and to various agencies. And these are fresh graduates of our universities.”

The government will be giving them an internship for one year and every month the government will set the budget for those interns to be paid 25,000 shillings every month.

The Chairperson Departmental Committee on Education, Hon. Julius Melly welcomed the move by the chairperson saying it’s an important plan where the government will be recruiting over 20,000 teachers and the universities are set to receive double funding through the new model.

“We will be recruiting over 20,000 teachers, we want to construct a number of TTs across the country, also to make sure that the universities have gotten out of their financial doldrums by actually double funding of the university through the new funding model.” Hon. Julius Melly echoed.

The Departmental Committee on Education recommended for the Teachers Service Commission the Kes. 6.8B for the recurrent expenditure to be reinstated as it has affected personal; emoluments that are already committed.

On the other hand the state department for vocational and technical education the Kes. 261M development budget should be reinstated as the reinstates as commitments have been made by the state department for Early Learning and Basic Education the Kes. 149.84M development budget in the directorate of basic education should be reinstated as commitments have also been made.