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Rift widens over counties revenue sharing formula

Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen (right), Narok Senator Ledama ole Kina (centre) and Mandera Senator Mahamud Mohammed after addressing the Press in Nairobi yesterday. [Jenipher Wachie]

The revenue sharing formula stalemate has deepened with two opposing sides drifting further apart and with no signs of consensus in the horizon.

While Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja led ‘Team Kenya’ in support of an amendment that will see the baseline for revenue sharing among counties reduced to between Sh250 billion and Sh270 billion, the other faction insists that a consensus can only be arrived at through a mediation committee.

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