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CoG Chair Wycliffe Oparanya (left) and Kisumu County Governor Anyang' Nyong'o in Kisumu. [Denish Ochieng/Standard]
While the drama around the allocation of funds at the Senate may have subsided, the ghost of unused cash sent back to Treasury continues to haunt counties.
The country was treated to high-stakes negotiations, nine failed votes, and claims of bribery and wrongful detention over the revenue-sharing formula, but the billions of shillings that eventually make it to county governments may yet go the way they have in previous financial years.
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