Last Updated on September 24, 2025 by Turkana County News Online
Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has dismissed claims that salary delays in some counties are a result of the National Treasury’s failure to release the equitable share allocation on time.
Speaking on Wednesday, September 24, during a brief interview on Ramogi FM, Mbadi said the Treasury had already cleared all the pending arrears up to August and that the allocation was adequate to pay all county workers.
“If money had not been released to counties, then you would have noticed that all the counties would not have been able to pay their workers’ salaries,” Mbadi stated.
“If you do your research, you will realise that there are counties that have already paid up to August salaries. We had already cleared all the pending arrears, and we recently released capitation for July and August,” he clarified.
In a public disclosure made in the Kenya Gazette issue of Friday, September 19, the Treasury indicated it had released Ksh32.93 billion to the devolved units in August.
However, the CS clarified that the only money that had not yet been released was the September capitation, which he vowed to disburse before the end of the month.
During the interview, Mbadi attributed the delays in disbursement to some counties to the late submission of their budgets to the National Treasury.
