If you look at the budget, strictly speaking, the 70 billion that was promised is factored in the budget.
It is provided for, by way of conditional grant, grants that have now been made an integral part of the budget, so the counties are actually expected to budget on the basis of the added amount.
So to the extent that the commitment was made by the president, that commitment has been honored and it’s part of that budget.
The problem is disbursement and the kind of disbursement, the manner in which is done, has rendered County governments helpless.
If you look at the audit queries, the way they are brought before the Public Accounts Committee of the Senate, you will find that pending bills are the biggest challenge to County governments.
County governments have a budget, they give out tenders to people humble people who go to banks to get money from banks.
These people aren’t able to pay for the services that they have our sourced from the people who supply them, and at the end of every financial year you will find that the county is unable to pay them.
The tragedy of this is that banks now do not accept to loan people who have a papers of getting tenders awarded to them by county governments.
So, that’s very unfortunate. How then do local people get money to be entrepreneurs?
You can’t be an entrepreneur if you cannot be funded by your bank. The bank will not fund you if recoverability of the money they give you is in doubt because of these pending bills.
You also have people you obligated to your workers, be they casual, you are obligated to banks and other institutions.
So the counties owing to the mess that has been created by treasury is in quandary and that is not acceptable
