By BERNARD NAMUNANE bnamunane@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Sunday, July 10 2011 at 19:31
Posted Sunday, July 10 2011 at 19:31
It will take three years for county governments to become fully functional, a government taskforce report says.
The report, which will be handed to Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi on Monday, also reduces the number of civic seats from 3,700 to 1,625.
It contains six draft Bills that MPs will have to enact to bring county governments into force.
The draft Bills will be taken up by the drafting team, made up of the Kenya Law Reform Commission, the Attorney General’s office and the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution, for fine-tuning.
The taskforce headed by Moi University law lecturer Mutakha Kangu has proposed the formation of a County Transition Authority to guide the decentralisation of some executive, financial and fiscal powers from the National government to the counties.
Proposed under the Draft Transition to Devolved Government Bill, the authority will lead the transfer of powers and functions vested in counties on a three year period from next year.
It states in part: “The authority will provide a framework for a coordinated transition to county governments; over a period of not more than three years from the date of the first election of county assemblies.”
The taskforce expects that by 2015, county governments will be fully functional.
The Transition Bill sets up the structures, transfer of functions and powers and obliges the national government to assist the new units to acquire the capacity to run their operations.
The Devolved Governments Bill sets the powers, functions and responsibilities that the devolved units will be expected to deliver.
The Urban Areas and Cities Bill will guide the classification and setting up of urban areas and how they will be governed in each county
The Intergovernmental Relations Bill provides for the cooperation and consultation between the national and county governments on the one hand and between counties on the other.
The Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Bill stipulates the taxes that will be levied by the national government and those that will be handed over to counties.
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