30 April 2008
Nairobi — Prime Minister Raila Odinga and one of his deputies Musalia Mudavadi are some of the officials whose new offices the Government is seeking funds for in the new estimates.
Six other new ministries are also set to receive a good portion of the Sh14 billion the Government is seeking as a supplementary budget.
However, from the estimates, ministries that were hived off others are likely to receive funds from their parent ministries, whose budgets have been reduced.
Mr Odinga's office is set to receive Sh243.9 million and Sh183.4 million for recurrent and development expenses, respectively, if the new estimates are passed by Parliament as they are.
Reconciliation
The office charged with supervision and coordination of Government affairs was created after the signing of the National and Reconciliation Accord by President Kibaki and Mr Odinga.
Mr Mudavadi's office, under which the Ministry of Local Government falls, is set to receive an extra Sh867 million in development expenditure funding.
The Nairobi Metropolitan ministry, under Mutula Kilonzo, will need Sh41.5 million to enable it run for the next two months.
However, the new ministry, which is charged with the affairs of running and developing the capital, has not ben allocated funds for development expenditure.
The ministry was also one of those that failed to secure office space after the new grand coalition Cabinet line- up was named.
The Ministry of Medical Services, headed by Prof Anyang' Nyong'o, will need Sh102.2 million for recurrent expenses and has not been allocated funding for development.
On the other hand, its sister ministry of Public Health and Sanitation has been allocated Sh4.9 billion for development expenditure.
Another new ministry, Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid lands, which targets the country's dry regions, requires Sh42.4 million for its recurrent expenditure and Sh1.8 billion for the development of various projects.
The Ministry of Industrialisation, which was hived off that of Trade, is requesting Sh1.17 billion for recurrent expenses and Sh503 million for its development expenditures.
The ministry is headed by ODM chairman Henry Kosgey.
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