Our 47 counties stand at a crossroads in how they finance and deliver critical infrastructure.
For years, overreliance on exchequer allocations and donor funding has slowed progress, leaving flagship projects underfunded or incomplete.
The result is a persistent mismatch between ambitious development plans and the resources available to implement them.
When President William Ruto stood before the gleaming new Homa Bay County Headquarters this week, the occasion might have looked like a standard ribbon-cutting.
