The Nairobi County Government will lose four key functions to the national government if the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report is adopted, in what could mean that Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) is here to stay. This gave birth to NMS, which was established in March, to run the transferred functions with an annual budget of Sh27 billion for two years. There had been reports that the initiative would propose collapsing of Nairobi County to be run by the national government in its entirety, a move would have seen Nairobi County cease to have a governor as its head. Nonetheless, Nairobi County will still have a governor, a senator, MPs and ward representatives as the positions have not been touched by any proposals in the report. Nairobi County has 85 wards represented by MCAs who are part of Nairobi County Assembly, 17 constituencies represented by MPs, and a senator.

Source: Daily Nation October 22, 2020 12:00 UTC