This study was set to critically discuss challenges that are faced by administrators in engaging citizens in the County decision making (citizen participation) in devolved government. Over recent decades, many countries have gained experience with referendums, citizens’ forums, citizens’ juries, collaborative governance with referendums, budgeting, and other models in which citizens have a more direct say to governance. Citizen participation in decision making is usually considered a valuable element of democratic governance. Citizen involvement has a number of positive effects on democracy a part from owning the decision, it increases issue knowledge, civic skills, and public engagement, and it contributes to the support for decisions among the participants. It is clear that the contribution of participation to democracy differs according to type of democratic innovations, deliberative forums and surveys appear to be better at promoting the exchange of arguments, whereas referendums and participatory policy making projects are better at giving citizens influence on policy making and involving more people. This paper identifies some of the theoretical and contextual from the previous researchers and literature that contributes to the promotion of citizen participation in decision making of a County. From the findings it shows that there is low citizen participation due to unawareness in the County thus making it impossible for the citizen to contribute in the decision making of governance
