A member of parliament from Belgut expressed his disgust at the state of the county's infrastructure, saying it is so worn that it cannot withstand significant rainfall.
The lawmaker asserts that counties should already have built infrastructure capable of holding excess rain and preventing natural disasters like floods.
Speaking on Citizen TV's Daybreak program on Monday, Koech maintained that, even with the federal government's meager allocation of funds to counties, a permanent emergency budget should have successfully reduced the current catastrophic floods plaguing the country.
"Almost more than 10 years after devolution we are still saying that the infrastructure in the counties cannot contain excess rainfall that is wanting," said Koech.
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"Why are we talking as if we are in the 80's and the 90's? You need to plan in fact no one should be telling counties that 'you need to plan for El Nino' it should be within their plan. There is 2.5% of their budget goes to their budget."
He said counties that prepared their infrastructure are responding to the current floods comfortably because they were frugal with their resources.
"You've seen some counties that are not even complaining they are saying were perfectly okay," he said.
This follows a week of intense rains that inundated most of the country, destroying property, uprooting families, and taking lives.
Counties have complained time and time again about the National Government's delayed funding disbursement, claiming it has severely hindered their ability to respond to the disaster.
A mystery still exists, though, as Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua changed course and stated that "money will not come" following her lengthy statement claiming that Ksh. 10 billion had been distributed to fight the rains.
Rather than expecting funds from outside sources, he advised county governments to use the money already in their coffers.
