Counties raise alarm as June funds delayed


[Source: The Standard, by Macharia Kamau and Roselyne Obala]

County governments have warned that public services risk grinding to a halt after the National Treasury failed to disburse funds for June.

Apart from failing to pay salaries, the governors we spoke to said that without the money, the counties are staring at a major health crisis because they are ill-prepared to curb spread of the coronavirus disease.

Senators have failed to agree on a new revenue sharing formula proposed by the Commission on Revenue Allocation on the allocation of Sh316.5 billion.

This has meant that they cannot…

Read more…


LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here