Nairobi County has been plagued by incessant power battles since the establishment of Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) in March. If not wrangles over the payment of pending bills and contractors, then it is over allocation of funds to county functions, secondment of county employees, or credit over the implementation of county projects. The Deed saw four county services of health, transport, public works, utilities and ancillary services, and county planning and development services transferred to NMS. Mr Yatani said the funds can only be remitted to the Nairobi County Government (NCCG) Revenue Fund Account and not to NMS. According to the report, county functions of health services, county transport, county planning and development, county public works and firefighting services and disaster management should be taken over by the State.

Source: Daily Nation October 26, 2020 12:00 UTC