Total allocation to counties by the national government has risen to above 40 per cent after President Uhuru Kenyatta signed the CDF Act 2013, National Treasury data showed. Government had initially allocated 32 per cent of resources or Sh210 billion to counties. But the CDF cash, as well as money for rural and urban roads development will lift that to above 40 per cent. President Kenyatta signed the CDF Act 2013 into law at a ceremony witnessed by National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi and National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich at State House, Nairobi. Parliamentarians welcomed the signing into law of the CDF Act 2013. The Mps said that this was evidence that the Jubilee administration had allocated way above the 40 per cent threshold of revenues to counties They noted that this had been achieved even without a referendum.
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 05:16:19 +0000
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