The Kenya Roads Board reckons that the formula for sharing the cash is skewed because it puts focus on poverty and population levels, denying some counties their rightful share of the billions.
The formula has seen counties with shorter road networks receive higher allocations due to the poverty measure.
Counties in the year to June shared Sh4.3 billion from the maintenance levy, and will get Sh7.8 billion in period starting July.
The length and status of county roads will determine the sharing of billions of shillings raised from the fuel maintenance levy among the 47 counties if proposals by the Kenya Roads Board are adopted.
The board reckons that the formula, developed by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), for sharing the cash is skewed because it puts focus on poverty and population levels, denying some counties their rightful share of the billions.
The CRA formula has seen counties with shorter road networks receive higher allocations due to the poverty measure.
For instance, Turkana was allocated Sh174 million in the current year, compared to the Sh134.5 million given to Nakuru — which has longer road network than the poor county in the northern Kenya.
“When we use the CRA formula, some counties which have no road networks end up with a wind fall of the funds which are meant for road maintenance,” says KRB general manager for finance Rashid Mohammed.
“Since they do not have a longer (road) network to maintain or rehabilitate they use the funds to develop new roads which is not the main spirit of the Kenya Roads Board Fund.”
Counties in the year to June shared Sh4.3 billion from the maintenance levy, and will get Sh7.8 billion in period starting July.
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