By BRIAN OKINDAMore by this AuthorA lobby group has faulted the Council of Governors (CoG) for defending its members who are facing corruption charges. The Civil Society Reference Group (CSRG) has warned that CoG risks becoming irrelevant if it continues to protect and defend “wayward governors in the pretext of defending devolution”. CSRG maintained that the council must refrain from the clichéd and often stereotyped narrative that anyone seeking to hold county governments to account is undermining devolution. “Defending corrupt governors blindly is not one of the reasons for which the CoG was established under Section 19 of the Inter-governmental Relations Act, No 2 of 2012. That is not why Kenyans [promulgated] the Constitution in 2010 with a devolved system of government,” said Mr Churchill.

Source: Daily Nation December 23, 2019 10:41 UTC