{"id":232677,"date":"2026-05-08T14:57:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-counties-to-receive-sh10-5bn-road-levy-share-under-new-funding-proposal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:57:55","slug":"kenya-counties-to-receive-sh10-5bn-road-levy-share-under-new-funding-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-counties-to-receive-sh10-5bn-road-levy-share-under-new-funding-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Counties to Receive Sh10.5bn Road Levy Share Under New Funding Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Counties are set to receive Sh10.5 billion from the Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF) under a new proposal by the Ministry of Roads and Transport aimed at including devolved units as direct beneficiaries of fuel levy collections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The proposal, presented to the Senate Standing Committee on Roads, Transportation and Housing, seeks to allocate 15 percent of the fund to county governments, while the national government retains 85 percent for maintenance of trunk roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The ministry said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605080391.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Counties are set to receive Sh10.5 billion from the Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF) under a new proposal by the Ministry of Roads and Transport aimed at including devolved units as direct beneficiaries of fuel levy collections. The proposal, presented to the Senate Standing Committee on Roads, Transportation and Housing, seeks to allocate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":232678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6102,6141,4688,430,12638,257,10809,8609,7414,54352,7294,254],"class_list":["post-232677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-counties","tag-funding","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-levy","tag-news","tag-proposal","tag-receive","tag-road","tag-sh10-5bn","tag-share","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}