Funds delay a plot to kill devolution, says CIC official
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- Prof Wanyande, who is in charge of devolution, said the trouble faced by counties over delayed salaries and poor service delivery was meant to make governors look bad in the eyes of county residents.
The delayed release of funds for counties has been termed part of a scheme to make devolution fail.
Prof Peter Wanyande, a member of the Commission for Implementation of the Constitution, said some officials in the national government were out to make county governments to fail.
Prof Wanyande, who is in charge of devolution, said the trouble faced by counties over delayed salaries and poor service delivery was meant to make governors look bad in the eyes of county residents.
“We see a slow return of the forces that scuttled the process of forming regional governments back in 1963 when Majimboism was frustrated through resource starvation,” he told the Nation in Kisumu last Friday.
He called for civic education to make people understand their role in making the devolved system to work.
