Transition Authority warns assets may be lost as key law expires

Transition Authority Chair Kinuthia Wamwangi

The Transition Authority (TA) has warned that gaps in the law might lead to loss of public assets.

The agency's chairman Kinuthia Wamwangi said the Transition to Devolved Government Act, which created TA, will also expire on the same day the authority's term expires.

Mr Wamwangi said it would be difficult to secure all public assets after the expiry of the law. He added that as a result, many functions are likely to suffer before a new body is formed to take over from the authority.

"Issues like human resource are critical to the counties and we do not know how they will be managed once our term expires," he said.

Wamwangi was speaking to the Press after a two-day workshop for county executive committee members in charge of Public Service and county secretaries from all the 47 counties at the Lake Naivasha Country Club.

He said that they were prepared to leave next month when their term expires and refuted claims that they wanted to stay on.

"We wanted an extension so as to cover some of the legal issues and because we didn't get that we are more than ready to exit," he said.

According to him, the authority was preparing several reports on devolution that will be handed to the national government next month when they leave office.

"We started preparing our exit in July last year and what we are doing now is preparing the Status of Devolution reports before handing over," he said.

He said that all functions that were detailed in the Constitution that needed to be devolved had been completed. Those left were additional ones that were gazetted after the authority was formed.

"Several functions are remaining, including the issue of Pensions, Human resource and Audit of public assets," he said.

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