Civil servants are the greatest impediment to the constitution implementation, the chairman of the Taskforce on Devolution Mutakha Kangu has said. Kangu singled out technocrats at the treasury for "resisting implementation" and "bringing about trouble" in the drafting of a law to provide for financial autonomy for the county governments. He warned of a possible "macro-economic instability" if the revenue allocation is skewed.
He also threatened to go to court to challenge the constitutionality of the Finance Bill should the views of the taskforce be ignored. Kangu however said some of the problems are due to misinformation. He said some civil servants are "refusing to learn".
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