PHOTO | FILE Majority leader, National Assembly Aden Duale at a past
press conference. Duale has backed plans by senators to amend the law
for the bulk of the funds sent to the counties to be spent on
development.
NATION
National Assembly Majority Leader Aden
Duale has backed plans by senators to amend the law for the bulk of the
funds sent to the counties to be spent on development.
Mr
Duale on Sunday regretted that counties were currently allocating more
money on recurrent expenditure at the expense of growth.
“We
(MPs) will support the Bill of Senate for 30 per cent of the devolved
funds to go to recurrent expenditure and 70 per cent on development,” Mr
Duale said.
He was speaking during celebrations
following the election of former Somalia Prime Minister Abdiweli Ali Gas
as President of semi-autonomous Puntland State at Intercontinental
Hotel in Nairobi.
Mr Duale said it was sad that the
Central Bank was holding Sh38 billion that county governments failed to
utilise while the areas were crying for development.
The
amendment to increase money for development is the third law that the
senators have in place to put fiscal and monetary discipline in the 47
county governments.
The proposed amendment to Public
Finance Management Act will be the third law that will help rein in
county bosses. Already there are two Bills, which the Senate has already
approved, awaiting the final legislative nod in the National Assembly.
The
senators have worked on the County Governments Act to set up
development boards for the counties, and amended the National Flag,
Emblems and Names Act to strip governors of the opulence that
accompanies their offices.
On Somalia, Mr Duale said the Jubilee government would work with regional bodies to stabilise the neighbouring country.
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