Burden of increasing recurrent expenditure in county budgets

The National Treasury and Planning CS Ukur Yattani leaving treasury building to present the Financial Year 2021/2022 budget at Parliament Buildings, Nairobi. June 10, 2021. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Counties continue to spend most of their budgets on personal emoluments as development suffers, eight years after the advent of devolution.

Many counties are struggling to settle pending bills amounting to billions of shillings, some dating back more than two years.