Mung'aro Praise his Administration for Good Performance

By Robby Ngoba

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Kilifi governor Gedion Mung’aro has attributed achievement in the last three years of his administration to increase revenue allocation and streamlined service delivery.

In his state of the County address at the County Assembly in Malindi, Mung’aro highlighted achievement in healthcare, agriculture, education and governance.

According to him own source of revenue had steadily rise from Ksh1,003 billion in 2022/2023 to Ksh1,209 billion in 2023/2024 and Ksh1,513 billion in 2024/2025 financial years respectively.

In achieving this, the governor announced plans of installing security cameras to all revenue collection points.

“Once fully equipped, revenue collection is projected to increase by 100% while its administration cost are expected to decline by about 50 percent,” he said.

In the health sector, according to him, collection had grown from Ksh100 million to more than Ksh550 million annually noting that this had been achieved through digitisation and automation of hospital systems.

The county executive stated that his administration had also renovated 21 healthcare facilities, opened new dispensaries, promoted more than 957 healthcare workers and also hired 191 new staff.

He revealed that water distribution had improve from 65 percent in 2022 to 69 percent in 2025, supported by 744 kilometre pipeline, 49 boreholes and 12 water pans.

In education sector, he said a steady progress of 2,122 students benefiting fully scholarship to national schools and a school feeding programme raising enrolment from 46,935 learners in 2023/2024 to 57,802 in 2025.

“The County has also invested in early childhood education, targeting 1,100 ECDE teachers and equipping 406 centres with digital devices,” he added.

In tourism, the governor expressed an improvement noting that Kilifi now hosts 32 full developed markets with the 2024 Kilifi investment conference held in Vipingo unlocking over US$1.1 billion in capital flow.