PREMIUM How rivalries, funding and legal gaps crippled county economic blocs Counties 38 min ago

Despite repeated promises by successive governments to support regional economic blocs and county integration efforts through an enabling legal framework, almost 14 years after devolution little has changed."There is a need to entrench regional economic blocs in law to enhance their credibility and attract sustainable funding from development partners and financial institutions.

According to Mr Kizito Osore Wangalwa, Director of Committees and Programmes at the Council of Governors (CoG), the absence of legislation remains the biggest obstacle facing the regional economic blocs.