Today PS Mining Elijah Mwangi led senior officers in the State Department for Mining for a meeting with the Parliament of Kenya Parliamentary Committee on Environment, Forestry and Mining for consideration of Supplementary Estimates 2 for the fiscal year 24/25.
The discussions focused on a number of issues that are central to achieving the set targets for the department including half-year budget implementation status, sectoral performance, expected output and projected targeted results for the current financial year.
The session, chaired by the Baringo South MP Hon. Charles Kamuren-the Committee’s Deputy Chair, provided an apt sharing forum where I highlighted several significant achievements by the department under the cited period despite operating under a tight fiscal space owing to budgetary constraints.
As a department, we deeply cherish the support we continue to receive from the committee.
Particularly, we are grateful and value the assurance by the committee for positive consideration of our request for adequate funding and additional budgetary allocation to accelerate the execution of our transformative programs and position mining as one of Kenya’s main economic pillar.