The Council of Governors (CoG) is willing to withdraw a court case challenging its exclusion from utilisation of the Sh10.5 billion Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF) if the National Treasury consults the 47 county governments.
Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga said this during a stakeholder engagement with the Budget and Appropriations Committee of the National Assembly on the County Governments Additional Allocation Bill (CGAAB) 2025.
She told the committee chaired by Alego Usonga MP Samuel Atandi that governors were willing to settle the matter outside court if possible since they went to seek an interpretation on how it should be implemented. "The Council of Governors is willing to have this matter sorted out of court if possible and are willing to engage Members of National Assembly towards achieving this," said Wanga.
Atandi pointed that the delays in passing the law, which is in violation of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, have affected construction of roads under the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (Kerra).
