Question

What are the challenges facing the county government in Kenya? 

Answer 1

Challenges facing the county government in Kenya include;

• How to evenly distribute the resources they have within the county.
• Inadequate finances
• Cross county planning and development of some resources e.g water, roads 
• Need for retraining of government workers.
• Transfer of functions from the national government to county government
• Structural overlaps/overlaps of functions with the national government
• Policy and legal gaps
• Some counties are not well endowed with resources.
• Tribal interests in making appointments
• Lack of full anatomy as their operations can be stopped by the national government
• Corruption and mismanagement of developed funds
• Impeachment threats by members of county assembly.
• Increase in natural calamities
• Leadership wrangles
• Delay in remittance of funds by the national government