ELGEYO Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen has criticised members of the national assembly who are out to frustrate devolution, according to The Star.
Murkomen rebuked members who are behind delayed funds to manage the devolve system of governments. The Senator said the National Assembly is not fully committed to implementing devolution.
“As much as we are trying to ensure that counties are funded well by increasing budgetary allocations, members of the national assembly are on the other hand frustrating the efforts by reducing the resources,” he said.
Terming the legislators as enemies of devolution, Murkomen reiterated their commitment as senators to ensure that a devolved system of government be safeguarded against threats by anti-reformers.
Murkomen who chairs the committee on devolution said MPs are determined to ensure county government operations are paralysed by denying them the resources they require to function properly.
Murkomen was speaking in Iten during the swearing-in ceremony of members of the county executive committee and Public Service Board members nominated by Governor Alex Tolgos. He said MPs should not expect governors to deliver on their mandate without adequate budgetary allocation. “We are not going to sit and watch enemies of devolution try to frustrate operations of county government for the benefit of the people,” said Murkomen.
He called on Kenyans to rally behind them in their bid to safeguard devolved system of government from being scuttled by members of the national assembly for selfish political gains and warned that should the new system of governance be done away with, the ordinary people would be bound to suffer in all spheres of social and economic development.
