Since July counties have been treated to endless talk about the division of revenue law that defines the formula of revenue share.
It has evolved into a blame game between MPs, senators and desperate governors.
MPs declined to accept the suggestions of senators that counties be allocated Sh400 billion and instead proposed Sh380 billion.
Both the Senate and National Assembly must agree and adopt one figure but for some strange reason, it’s taking time to reach a consensus.
A nine-member committee of MPs and senators has been set up to come up with a solution.
But it is instructive that even when the politicians squabble and haggle over the figure, the long-suffering citizens walk into hospitals that have no drugs.
Service suppliers’ businesses are dying because they cannot pay bills and their creditors.
County employees face delayed salaries that impact loans they are servicing and in the process hurt their mental health.
We call upon the nine-member committee to speed up its talks to save counties from financial stress.
The already cash-strapped units have been forced to divert statutory payments like pensions and taxes.
The net effect is an economic slowdown in which jobs disappear and firms fold.
Quote of the Day: "There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.”
Selma Lagerlof
