Rein in on lavish county expenditure

Ever since devolution kicked in three years ago, there have been fears that things could go wrong with the new units. These fears grew with the zealousness with which some of the devolved units were throwing money at what many would consider non-essential initiatives.

The Controller of Budget is once again raising the red flag; recurrent expenditure is taking a huge slice of the devolved funds. In the period between July and September 2015, salaries and allowances soaked up 56 per cent of the Sh56.48 billion drawn from the County Revenue Funds, up 4 per cent from the year before.