Mandera Governor Ali Roba wants the national government to stop duplicating functions meant for the counties. He wants at least 50 per cent of revenues collected in the previous year allocated to the counties — not 15 per cent of the last audited accounts. He presented his memorandum to the Building Bridges Initiative task force in a Mandera hotel. Roba cited agriculture whose functions were devolved, yet a lot of resources are still held by the central government. “If water is devolved, the resources allocated to water should go to the counties directly.

Source: The Star February 05, 2019 20:48 UTC