I have been following with amazement Moses Kuria‘s comments about reducing the wage bill by reducing the number of counties from 47 to 16. Mwingi Central‘s Joe Mutambu has also tabled a Constitutional Amendment Bill in Parliament proposing to reduce counties to 25.
Whereas some of these proposals are plausible, they may not attract the support required to sail through. But there are more pragmatic ways of reducing the ballooning wage bill.