Counties stare at total paralysis after cash crisis talks abort, again

Parliamentary Mediation committee Chairman Kimani Ichungwa (R) and his Co-Chair Mahamud Mohamed at County Hall, Nairobi. [Boniface Okendo/Standard]

County governments were yesterday left staring at a possible total paralysis of their operations after lawmakers’ meeting convened to resolve cash crisis in the devolved units aborted again.

The second mediation sitting on the contentious Division of Revenue Bill, 2019, failed to take place after seven out of nine senators in the team skipped the meeting, forcing the joint team to adjourn to September 11 over quorum hitch.