Counties to know value of assets from older set-ups
By Alvin.Mwangi, March 16, 2022Valuation of more than 80,000 assets owned by defunct local authorities has started. Already, Devolution Principal Secretary Julius Korir has commissioned a Sh181 million exercise to help county governments know the real value of the assets they inherited.
The exercise will be undertaken by the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee (IGRTC) in collaboration with county governments.
“We have taken a lot of time to prepare and we are now fully set to complete this exercise before we transition to the next national and county governments,” he said.
Acting IGRTC board chairman John Burugu said they identified 80,141 parcels of lands, buildings, plant and equipment.
“In regard to land for defunct local authorities, we identified and recorded 62,000 parcels; while for devolved functions relating to national government we identified 18,141 pieces of land,” he said.
Records altered
Burugu, however, said some assets could not have been captured in the reports as their records have been altered.
He said they only identified items that were captured in the defunct authorities’ books and those in the national government records related to the authorities.
The exercise will be in two phases, the first of which started on Monday and is expected to end in April. Some 26 counties are targeted in the first phase.
The IGRTC acting CEO, Agnes Ndwiga, said they have trained 208 technical teams, including engineers and surveyors, to undertake the project.
They include 150 valuers from the Ministry of Land, 26 engineers from the Ministry of Infrastructure, 26 surveyors from the Ministry of Land and six from the National Land Commission.