{"id":131355,"date":"2026-02-18T09:02:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/sifuna-opposes-national-govt-city-hall-cooperation-deal-calls-for-conditional-grants\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:02:58","slug":"sifuna-opposes-national-govt-city-hall-cooperation-deal-calls-for-conditional-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/sifuna-opposes-national-govt-city-hall-cooperation-deal-calls-for-conditional-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Sifuna Opposes National Govt-City Hall Cooperation Deal, Calls for Conditional Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 18 \u2013 Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has called for the shelving of the National Government deal with the Nairobi County Government describing it as a \u201cpower grab\u201d and \u201cunlawful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed deal, which seeks to transfer key city functions to the national government, has sparked intense debate among county leaders and political stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>Sifuna emphasized that instead of broad takeovers, the national government should consider sector-specific conditional grants, allowing the county to retain control while addressing funding gaps in priority areas.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the cooperation deal undermines the constitutional autonomy of county governments and could set a dangerous precedent for centralization of power.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 18 \u2013 Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has called for the shelving of the National Government deal with the Nairobi County Government describing it as a \u201cpower grab\u201d and \u201cunlawful\u201d. The proposed deal, which seeks to transfer key city functions to the national government, has sparked intense debate among county leaders and political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}