Devolution: Counties short of 48 billion shillings.

Counties will have to make do with 48 billion shillings less, after President Uhuru Kenyatta assented to a bill which puts the county revenue allocation to 210 billion shillings, instead of the 258 billion shillings requested by the county governments through the senate. President Kenyatta termed the bill as ‘time barred’, and cited that not signing the bill would have led to a ‘lengthy complication’ for the budget preparation process. However, skeptics see the signing of the bill as an indication that the Kenyatta administration is not intent on implementing full devolution.

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