Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has continued his attack on President William Ruto and his Kenya Kwanza administration, calling the president’s administration the biggest impediment to devolution.

Speaking during the unveiling of Senator Enock Wambua’s gubernatorial bid on Saturday, August 9, 2025, Sifuna opined the people at the State House have been a major hindrance to attaining the full benefits of devolution.

Sifuna reiterated his personal commitment to ensuring devolution works as the devolved units were envisaged during the promulgation of the 2010 constitution.

“We are saying we must solve the biggest problem in Kenya, which is at the state house. If we don’t address that, even if you put good people in the counties, Kasongo will still hold you down,” he said while commenting on the topic of the devolved entities.

“As Sifuna, I have said my biggest goal is not to become a governor but to get a president who believes in devolution and supports it as we wanted it to work,” he stated.

Sifuna’s sentiments come after former Bungoma Governor Wycliffe Wangamati also weighed in on the status of devolution and public finance management in the nation.

In an interview on Thursday, August 7, 2025, Wangamati expressed concern that despite constitutional commitments to devolution, key services and resources are still being held at the centre, making counties overly dependent on Nairobi.

“We are struggling in terms of devolving more resources and services to the counties. It may be a question of leadership or commitment by the national government on devolution, or people around the national government cabinet secretaries, principal secretaries, or even MPs,” Wangamati said.

Wangamati further argued that the national government should relinquish control of certain infrastructure institutions to the counties to boost development and enhance service delivery at the grassroots.

“Bodies like KeRRA and KURA should be moved to counties. KeRRA has a budget of about KSh15 billion, and KURA KSh26 billion; this money should be pushed to counties,” he stated.

The former county boss concluded by stating that funds allocated to counties have more transparent and traceable than those spent at the national level.