Job Simiyu.
Right from the previous week, there seemed to be an endless fight between the kenyan parliament and the governors over budget allocation to the counties. A 300 billion budgetary allocation was to be given to the counties, but the senate insisted that they needed an extra 25 billion shillings, claiming that the developments in various counties were stagnating while the national government was making huge steps in their development plans.
This has brought contention in the country, and the deputy president made an appeal last week that there is no need for the two parties to move to court while this is something that could be sorted out amicably. His pleas seemingly fell into deaf years as the governors under the able leadership of their chairman, the governor of Kakamega, Wycliffe Ambetsa Oparanya, have moved to the court of appeal to seek clarification over the issue, as they claim the national parliament is not being fare in their discharge of duties.
“We must state that if mediation fails, county governments will decline to receive money for salaries (recurrent) for services they will not be providing. We cannot be so insensitive to the desires of our citizens who overwhelmingly voted for devolution,” Council of Governors chairman WycliFfe Oparanya said. What is the way forward for the county government workers all over the country? What will be the ruling of the court of appeal in regard to the issue? What will be the solution to the ever unending wrangles between the two parties?
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