Governors will meet shortly after President Kenyatta
assented to a bill reducing the counties allocation fund from258 billion
shillings to 210 billion shillings. The 48 billion shillings shortfall is being
seen by some as attempts to scuttle the devolution process, something that the
President has denied.
Senators, who represent the counties interest at the
national level, had sought 258 billion shillings, but
the amount was reduced by
the national assembly MPs to 210 billion shillings, setting a stage for
supremacy battles between the MPs and the senators. However, House majority
leader Adan Duale, and a number of MPs said that reducing the amount allocated
to the counties was a matter of’ technicality’ and not their siding with
anti-devolution forces.
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