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Audit boosts push for more cash to counties

Governors and the Opposition got a major boost to their respective campaigns to change the Constitution when an audit of the four-year-old document revealed that counties were getting very little money, and the Senate was toothless.

The Socio-Economic Audit of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, released yesterday, debunked the myth that the national government had in the past two years spent more in the counties than previous governments used to spend prior to the roll-out of devolution.

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