County bosses have criticized the national government for allegedly undermining their constitutional mandate of spearheading development in their respective county governments, a fact that they argue is a way of blocking their re-election come 2017.
Issuing their complaints through their council chair Peter Munya, the governors now accuse the national government of apparently blocking them from accessing funds meant for county projects, an allegation they say will greatly affect their re-election in the 2017 national elections.
Speaking on Monday, governor Munya said there is a government scheme that is reportedly perpetrated through technology, that he says is being used as an excuse to prevent them from getting additional funds even as the election period draws closer, a move he argues is aimed at denting their political careers.
“We have always had the fear that the national government would want to widely sabotage counties so that by the end of each financial year, they get to use the excuse of counties having billions of unused funds and thus not increasing the allocations. This is undermining county leadership,” Munya said.
However, the council chair did not state the number of counties that had been affected by the funding crisis.