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Talks on county money end as MPs shout at each other

National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale (right), MPs Amos Kimunya (centre) and Daniel Maanzo at County Hall, Nairobi, yesterday. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The cash crisis in counties that has sparked strikes over salary delays is likely to persist after a lawmakers’ meeting convened to negotiate a settlement ended in acrimony.

The first sitting of the mediation team on the contentious Division of Revenue Bill, 2019, ended acrimoniously yesterday after it degenerated into a shouting contest among the MPs.

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