This treacherous path was not necessary and should provide vital lesson on the management of county revenues.
A guiding principle is that funds should be proportionate to the functions allocated to either national or county governments.
Finally, counties will receive their financial allocations this week after a four-month deadlock that nearly grounded their operations. At the centre of the dispute was the formula for sharing the cash that had been proposed by the Commission for Revenue Allocation, which the Senate rejected severally on grounds that the criteria was punitive and bound to deprive some counties of revenues they have always received in the past.
It was not until President Uhuru Kenyatta intervened by promising increased allocations to the counties in the next financial year did the stalemate end. Senators subsequently passed the motion and allowed the government to disburse the money.
