It is with great pleasure that we present to you the second quarter Budget Implementation StatusReport for the financial year 2017/18. This report provides information on various departmentsand units of the County Government of Nyeri for the financial year 2017/18. It highlights theperformance of local revenue collection, National Government transfers to County Revenue Fund(CRF), Exchequer releases/ requisitions from CRF and expenditure by departments and otherunits.This report is prepared in accordance with the requirements of Section 166 Sub-Section 4(a, b) ofthe Public Finance Management Act, 2012. It states that the county treasury shall consolidate all thequarterly reports from County Government entities and submit them to the County Assembly and deliver copies tooffice of the controller of budget, National Treasury and the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA).The budgeted target of the local revenue during the current financial year is KShs. 1B and by theend of second quarter the amount collected was only KShs. 274,175,484 representing 27%. Thiswas 11.3% below the achievement of the same period last year. The total transfers from theNational Treasury stood at KShs. 861,960,472 representing only 15.17% against an Exchequerrelease of KShs. 1,900,637,844. The Exchequer releases includes not only the National TreasuryTransfers but also the balance carried over from last financial year and also the local revenuecollected during the period under review. During the period under review there was no absorptionof the development budget and only 29.7% of the recurrent had been absorbed.The report provides valuable information, on budget performance, that calls for concerted effortsto hasten the processes of implementing development programs in the county. This will enablethe County Government to achieve the transformative agenda as envisioned through thesupplementary budget.

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