Service delivery in Kiambu County will be disrupted from Monday, workers will go for months without pay and patients will die in County hospitals due to lack of drugs.
This is after the high court in Nairobi suspended a controversial Ksh 1 billion supplementary budget passed by the Kiambu county Assembly last month amid chaos.
A supplementary budget is a request to Parliament for additional spending of public funds after the budget has been passed.
In this case, it means the Kiambu County government has no powers to spend any money thus service delivery will be halted.
Ten ward representatives through their two attorneys Titus Ochichi and James Mambolea said the bill to introduce the budget was moved irregularly and in bad faith contrary to laid down procedures that guide public finance management.
The matter is before Justice James Makau at the constitutional and human rights division.
Makau on Friday while suspending the budget directed that court papers be served to the county government of Kiambu and the controller of budget who have been listed as the first and second respondents.
The matter will be mentioned on April 9 for more directions.
The court gave two days to the respondents to file their responses.
“That a stay be and is hereby issued to the implementation of the supplementary appropriation (Kiambu county bill No. 3 of 2019)” ordered the court.
The MCAs are against the budget that saw over Ksh 841 million meant for development diverted to recurrent expenditure.
Ksh 356 million which was spent on the Kaa Sober Programme between July and December 2018 was also included in the supplementary appropriation of 2019.
The ward reps say the money was spent on fighting illicit brews without approval.
In February, hundreds of youths from Kiambu County were each paid kshs 20,000 after undergoing what the county government called “training to remain sober”.