Counties still struggling to collect own revenues 

Several counties are still struggling to get a handle on their fiscal affairs, a decade after they were set up, punishing their suppliers, employees and service delivery through perennial cash woes that have kept them fully dependent on Treasury’s disbursements.

The drafters of the constitution saw counties as an answer to the longstanding problem of poor resource distribution in the country, especially development funds which were traditionally wielded as a political tool by the central government.