Kitui Senator Enock Wambua has vowed to file a petition in court stopping the Treasury CS Henry Rotich's plan to cut counties funding by Sh18 billion.
The Wiper senator argues that the plan is ill advised.
Speaking at Parliament Buildings in Nairobi on Friday, Wambua said cutting down on county funding will be disastrous in terms of service delivery to the people.
“The National Treasury CS must be ready for legal suits because we are not going to give him space to cut on the meager funding the county governments are getting,” Wambua said.
Wambua said counties are under-funded and that any attempt to slash their budgetary allocation amounts to plunging them into crisis.
The senator asked the national government to seek funds elsewhere and leave county coffers alone.
He said senators will be pushing for more allocation to counties in the coming financial years to ensure equatable development in all the 47 counties.
Wambua said devolution has seen many services decentralized, adding that any attempts to frustrate them will be against the constitution.
On Tuesday, CS Rotich told the Senate Committee on Finance that the national government is broke and that it is seeking to slash county budget by Sh18 billion.
On Thursday, the Council of Governor (COG) chairman Josphant Nanok criticized the move, claiming that the CS has not consulted with governors.
Nanok noted that it will be impossible for the national government to slash their funding since majority of the counties have not even received their full allocations for the year (2017-2018).