Ways on cutting high budgetary allocation to recurrent expenditure in counties are among the key agenda during the sixth Devolution Conference in Kirinyaga County. Devolution CS Eugene Wamalwa said huge chunks of devolved resources are being channelled to recurrent expenditure with some counties spending up to over 80 per cent of their budgets on salaries. Wamalwa said this is not what Kenyans expected when devolution was started but they expected more resources in the grassroots to develop counties. Read: Kirinyaga to host Devolution Conference from March 4-8He said another threat to devolution is corruption which is taking away as much or even more than what is actually being spent. Unless we overcome this challenge of corruption, I can say that devolution is under threat,” Wamalwa said.

Source: The Star March 05, 2019 10:07 UTC