Its funny that all through the Constitutional debates no one talked about the cost.

what is the current recurrent expenditure budget proportion and with the government size set to double can we afford it?

I would really not worry much about costs. Kenyans have decided and we'll do it at any cost. A lot of money has been spend most of it wasted in the search for this new constitution. Once it's in place we'll make it all back. I call it a good investment and there is no better investment than giving hopeless people some hope. It's a cost that many nations have paid with blood.

We have just created a way to move money from the left pocket to the right one and added administrative costs for doing it AKA Big Government. Currently local Governments i.e. County councils, Municipal councils and City councils already have some cess and some other funny operation taxes (yet they have Latf Nairobi's Latf was 1.96 billion in the 2009/2010 year) I dont know what will happen when Central Government fails to give its due to the Counties....those will be turbulent times.

surplus? you think we have surplus? Hivi ndio watu walidanganywa juu ya pyramid schemes [money created in some obscure manner, increase by division] If the total pie is not enough (AKA living beyond our means) how can the slicing of it for everyone while having crumbs fall off the cake be enough? no matter how we slice it - we need a bigger cake. Countries that have made it made it through creating wealth not sharing the little they have that means we need to find some oil, raid some country, be tax free havens, be like switzerland and offer banking for crooks, colonize some region, make treaties with south sudan when they secede to do oil drilling huko, lower our wages (i have heard of people with masters in Asia being payed what we call peanuts in Kenya), Reduce the cost of power e.t.c. not by sharing crumbs and hoping someone will have some surplus.
has anyone given a thought to capacity building for counties? the 15% may just disappear coz people lack capacity to handle it. remember its 15% of money we did not have.

All valid questions or are we just having consumer counties.
on a light note and on the Canabis issue....Busia can, Laws that appertain to drug use and enforcement are at county level. Miraa banned in one County and an export of another. I am guessing the Pharmacy and Poison's Act will need to be done in 47 different ways.