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Counties face cash crisis as MPs, senators differ over Bill

Council of Governors Chairman Wycliffe Oparanya.

Today is the deadline for MPs to hammer a compromise on a money legislation, failure to which counties will be plunged into a cash crisis that will affect salaries of employees and disrupt services.

Should the Division of Revenue Bill, 2019, collapse, Treasury could advance funds for recurrent expenditure only to keep the counties running, but governors have vowed to reject the stop-gap measure.

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