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by The Kenya Times - Opinion Desk
October 6, 2024
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President William Ruto and the National Treasury are systematically and simultaneously killing Counties by refusing to disburse funds and cutting the Senate budget.  Thus, deliberately starving devolution slowly and painfully to death.

Supreme Court has already addressed issues Treasury is hanging on in refusing to disburse revenue share to Counties for FY2024/25.

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Two decisions by the Supreme Court resolved the issues.

In the first one in 2013, the court reworked the infrastructure for the division of revenue between the two levels of government to include the Senate. Until the court’s decision, the National Assembly had interpreted the Constitution to exclude the Senate from this process. 

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National Assembly still acts unconstitutionally by excluding the Senate from the budget-making process.

Even though the Senate exists solely to look out for the interests of county governments, the National Assembly somehow believed that the Division of Revenue Bill, which determines how much money will go to the counties, did not concern the Senate. The Supreme Court held a contrary opinion.

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Despite this progressive decision, the National Assembly has continued to roughshod its decisions on the Division of Revenue Bill by just ignoring the views of the Senate. Unfortunately, the design of the Public Finance chapter made this easier.

Article 221 allows the Treasury to present the budget estimates for the National government with no reference to the division of revenue process. The natural construction of that Article has been that the national government budget process, including passing the Appropriation Act and subsequent spending, proceeds whether or not the Revenue Division Bill has been passed.

Unfortunately, the same is not true of county governments. Article 224 of the Constitution requires that counties base their budgets on the Division of Revenue Act. Consequently, if there is an impasse between the two Houses and the Division of Revenue Act is not passed by the end of the financial year, counties, unlike the national government, cannot prepare their budgets and therefore cannot appropriate and spend in the new financial year. This situation is dangerously prejudicial to the bargaining powers of the Senate and county governments in the revenue division process.

If the Senate does not agree with the National Assembly, the latter just holds out until the Senate and counties get desperate since the latter have no money when the financial year runs out. Services start to suffer. Citizens naturally blame governors. Ultimately, the Senate is cowed and accepts whatever is on offer from the Assembly. That is what is happening this year.

The Supreme Court decision changes all that in two major respects.

In the first place, the Supreme Court decided that the passage of the budget estimates of the national government and subsequent appropriation prior to the division of revenue is unconstitutional. What would the national government be appropriating before it had been allocated its share?

The effect of that Supreme Court decision is that failure to pass the Division of Revenue Bill in time prejudices the national government and the county governments equally. That creates a power balance and becomes an important incentive for early settlement on the quantum of monies due to each level of government.

The other limb of the court decision was even more fundamental. The court determined that the current situation where county governments are left without money in the event of an impasse contradicts the spirit of the Constitution. Consequently, the court decided that if the Division of Revenue Bill is not passed before the end of the financial year, counties would be entitled to an allocation from the Consolidated Fund amounting to 50 percent of the revenue allocation of the previous year.

These two decisions regularise what were unfortunate lacunas and contradictions in the Constitution and affirms the Supreme Court as a progressive interpreter of the Constitution. Of course, all these progressive rulings mean nothing if the national government decides to ignore court decisions or the law.

Currently, the National Treasury defies the law regularly by failing to remit the monies due to county governments within the times provided for in law. Naturally, citizens blame governors for consequent poor services. Since no one can be found culpable of such violations, Treasury officers continue to act with impunity. Ruto is engaging in political deceit in delaying the disbursement of Counties revenue share for FY 2024/25.

Counties are responsible for preparing their own Finance Bills, which must align with national economic policies without undermining them.


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Article 209 (5) of the Constitution, says that counties deserve their equitable share of revenue, as it is a constitutional right, not a favor from the national government. 

 Under Article 203 (3) of the Constitution, the equitable share for counties is based on the last audited accounts approved by the National Assembly, not on projected revenue.

 Further Article 203 (1)(I) ensures counties receive stable and predictable allocations, protecting them from revenue shortfalls.

Section 5 of the Division of Revenue Act, 2024, states that if actual revenue falls short, the national government absorbs the shortfall, and any surplus also accrues to it. Article 219 further mandates that county funds must be transferred without delay or deductions.

Thus, Counties revenue share for FY 2024/25 must be transferred forthwith without further delay or excuse. The national government is operating normally while county Governments are being crippled through political mischief.

Counties’ equitable share is constitutionally excluded from the national government’s budget estimates, as per Article 221 (7), and is drawn from the Consolidated Fund.

National government economic policies should not negatively affect county allocations or their operations.

This article was written by Ndung’u Wainaina, Executive Director, the International Centre for Policy and Conflict 

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