
Kenyan President William Ruto has backed a plan to allocate an additional Sh65.9 billion to county governments to fund devolved functions. According to the Eastleigh Voice, the President said the government had also made progress in resolving long-running disagreements over the division of responsibilities between the national and county governments, a recurring point of contention in Kenya's devolution framework.
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