Governors must be accountable to maintain unity with Senate

This week, the Council of Governors will convene a conference in Nakuru apocalyptically-themed, “The Future of Devolution.” The conference is the second public outreach the Council is undertaking, in two weeks. The first outreach last week was a consultative meeting in Nairobi, at which nearly all the 47 county governments were represented, and also attended by some members of the Senate, among them Kipchumba Murkomen, James Orengo, and Ledama ole Kina as well as a large number members of the county assemblies from around the country.

The context of these meetings is the impasse over revenue sharing between the two levels of governments, which has seen the enactment of the 2019 Approbations Act, even though the Senate and the National Assembly were unable to agree on the Division of Revenue Bill, which the latter then enacted unilaterally.