Mke mwema hutoka kwa bwana12/28/2022 ![]() There was nothing to bank on and we were not engaged in a structured manner to find a solution to our issues,” he said. “They called us to State House and we took ugali and said ‘ kwaheri, tuonane kesho’ (goodbye, see you another time). On Wednesday Governor Ruto led his colleagues Peter Munya (Meru) and Ahmed Abdullahi (Wajir) to a State House meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta, which was thought would result in the governors dropping their bid.īut the Bomet governor said the meeting they had with the President was more talk and less action, something the county governments are not prepared to take. The CoG is also demanding that the government devolves management of forests, lands and education funds for infrastructure development. “In total we are asking for Sh102 billion for devolved functions and many more in the so-called Jubilee promises that were in our manifesto,” said Mr Ruto, who is also the Bomet Governor. Governors spurned the latest overtures by the Jubilee administration asking them to drop their referendum bid because the government has not given them any concrete commitments on the Sh102 billion they are seeking to be given to counties.Ĭouncil of Governors (CoG) chairman Isaac Ruto told the Sunday Nation the bulk of the money was being held by the ministry of Health (Sh19 billion), ministry of Water (Sh24 billion) and ministry of Roads (more than Sh30 billion).
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