The committee has published its response
The committee has responded to this consultation, question by question.
A KSh 50 monthly levy on metered electricity accounts, ring-fenced for county street lighting.
Departmental Committee on Energy
National Assembly
Sixty-two participants took part: 50 citizens responded and 12 organisations submitted memoranda. There was broad agreement that street lighting improves safety — especially for women and persons with disabilities — but strong, repeated concern that a flat KSh 50 levy is regressive and that counties have not earned trust to manage the fund.
Question 1 of 1 · Street lighting levy
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Every household with an electricity meter would pay KSh 50 extra per month, and the money would go to a fund that builds and maintains street lights.
A levy of fifty shillings per month is imposed on every metered electricity account, to be collected by the supplier and remitted to the County Street Lighting Fund.
What we heard
Respondents valued the safety benefits of lighting but objected to a single flat fee that charges a one-room household the same as a large estate. Across both citizens and organisations the loudest demand was for ring-fencing and independent audit of the fund before any collection.
Themes raised
Committee recommendation
The committee recommends the clause be amended so that the levy is banded by electricity consumption (lifeline-tariff households exempt), and so that release of the County Street Lighting Fund is conditional on published, independently audited annual accounts.