It has emerged that Uasin Gishu County performed ‘poorly’ among all the North Rift counties; in as far as development expenditure is concerned.
According to a Word Bank report released on Wednesday titled Decision Time: Spend more or spend smart, the county failed to spend 30 percent of its budget on development as required.
The County spent more than 70 percent of its budget on recurrent expenditure, like paying salaries to its workers and on catering for administration costs.
"Almost half of the 47 counties are spending less than 22 percent of actual spending on development, which could imply the counties delivery of services may be negligible,” indicated the report.
Turkana County in the North Rift was ranked second countrywide, having spent more than 30 percent of its budget on development.
The World Bank report now cautions that devolution could be defeated if the trend continues.
“The purpose of devolution was to get services to the people but it is worrying that under-spending on development is major,” said the report.
Uasin Gishu County also performed poorly in revenue collection, still trailing in the North Rift.