The Commission on Administrative Justice (Ombudsman) has warned counties against duplication of posts.
The commission said duplication of the national government to the counties has failed to champion the purpose of devolution to bring efficiency and minimize bureaucracy and corruption.
Chairman of Commission on Administrative Justice Otiende Amollo said the intention of devolution has been misunderstood and counties have become mini-national governments.
“Counties have decided to be Presidential in every aspect. They have created unwanted offices while retaining the old guards of the national government,” he said.
Mr Amollo said counties were expected to uphold efficiency through merging of key offices in the defunct presidential system but instead sub-divided them and even retained some unwanted administrative posts.
“The provincial administration, for example, is unconstitutional and should have been done away with,” he said.
Mr Amollo who spoke at Maseno University where the commission was training the university staff on complaints management said: “Counties have multiplied administrators down to the village level. This retained the bureaucracy and financial challenges associated by the previous system.”
He said that the multiplications presented power wars on top of burdening tax payers.
CAJ is working on an advisory status for county system of governance to restore sanity currently threatened by power wrangles involving governors and senators.
He said the perception held by governors that they have absolute executive power is misinformed adding that senators have oversight powers and are directly involved in formation of laws concerning counties.
The commission which is mandated to issue advisories on public administration has also warned that the disputes pitching governors against senators and MCAs against governors is a threat to devolution.