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State transfers library services to counties for Sh425m
From left: Timothy Aleko, Lyda Nyawera (concierge Mediacom event organizer), Purity Mutuku (facilitator) and Mary Ann Kabuga, a teacher at Blesco House School during the Day of the African Child at the Kenya National Library Service in Nakuru Town on June 15, 2019.
Photo credit: John Njoroge | Nation Media Group
What you need to know:
- The national government has allocated Sh425 million to counties to cater for the transfer of library services to the devolved units.
- Library services are a devolved function under the fourth schedule of the Constitution but have not yet been transferred to the county governments.
- The national government has now moved to properly transfer the function to counties and will now be allocating resources for library services as equitable share in a phased approach starting with the 2023/24 financial year.
The national government has allocated Sh425 million to counties to cater for the transfer of library services to the devolved units.
Library services are a devolved function under the fourth schedule of the Constitution but have not yet been transferred to the county governments.
