President William Ruto has urged County governments to generate income teams to enhance their own revenue collections.
Speaking during the opening of the 8th devolution conference on Wednesday in Eldoret Uasin Gishu County, the Head of State steed that counties should tame their appetite for National government revenue allocations.
Ruto said it is time devolved units engaged in long-and-hard thinking about sustainable and innovative resources to power their development.
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“It is beginning to unfairly constrict the frontiers of productive possibility and limit their horizons of transformation,” he said.
Further, he termed Counties as the most sustainable drivers of prosperity and Bottom-Up Economic Transformation and must be supported to bring about the much-desired change at the grassroots.
However, he noted that the National Government will continue disbursing funds to Counties more efficiently and timely.
“Delays in disbursing allocations to Counties have tremendous negative effects. There is no excuse for this; we simply have to do better.”
He explained to the group that this is why the first fair allocation payout to counties under the Kenya Kwanza government was carried out fully and on schedule for the first time since the beginning of devolution.
“We made a firm commitment to the people of Kenya to strengthen devolution.”
He identified one of the interventions being implemented as the transfer of all pending duties that the constitution had designated for counties to carry out.
Others include making sure that shareable revenue is transferred promptly and predictable and helping Counties increase their ability to create their own income.
The Head of State outlined how county governments may assist small businesses in developing sustainable routes to greater revenues, wealth development, and poverty eradication.
