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Experts fault push for more county cash

Budget experts are now questioning the rationale for the Opposition-led push for the counties to get three times the amount of money prescribed in the Constitution.

The Kenyan office of the International Budget Partnership said the proposal under the Okoa Kenya initiative to have 45 per cent of revenues of the previous year devolved was "extreme". The Constitution prescribes a minimum of 15 per cent.

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