Leaders oppose CRA decision to ‘spread wealth’

Deputy President William Ruto is welcomed by governors when he arrived for the opening of the Arid and Semi Lands workshop in Malindi. [Mkamburi Mwawasi/Standard]

Leaders of the arid areas have questioned the slow absorption of the Equalisation Fund, with some threatening to challenge the new criteria for sharing revenue in court.

Speaking at the inaugural Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Conference in Malindi, Kilifi County, yesterday, Council of Governors (CoG) chairman Josphat Nanok claimed that the Commission on Revenue Allocation’s (CRA) decision to increase the number of counties that would benefit from the fund from 14 to 34 was unconstitutional.