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Senate: Government to inherit councils’ debts to ease burden on counties

By Moses Njagih

Nairobi, Kenya: The Senate moved to ease the financial burden inherited by County governments from local authorities by passing a motion to have the National Government take over major debts that had been incurred by former councils.

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