...John Michuki? Is that the best there is in Murang'a? He has done good. You can only shine once and Madela realised this. That is why he (mandela) is the greatest statesman to ever have lived. Let the man spent the rest of his remaing days removing jiggers from his feet!!! (light note)

Magigi I think having the best performing minister and the best CDF manager in the country is not too shabby.
It could be worse.

This senator thing is over hyped!!

IMHO, it is better to be a member of the National Assembly than a senator.

FYI, the National Assembly:

1.Will legislate over bills of national importance while senate can only debate bills that affect county governments

2.Is where the national budget will be read and passed

3.Can also legislate on county related issues(which is primarily the role of senate.)

4.Has a greater oversight role over the national executive than the senate

The governor thing is confusing.I'm tempted to agree with Ruto that the governor is an over glorified chairman of County Council.Check the fourth schedule to confirm

Michuki for Governor!!! This guy is a no nonsense workaholic with an incredible business sense! I don't know why people are so fixated on the age. Numerous studies have shown that older employees are actually more innovative than the over hyped younger generation. Visit link below:

Older Employees More Innovative

I encourage everyone to visit that link because the sooner you disabuse yourself of these stereo typical belief the better for yourself, those around you and any businesses you may run.

Peter Kenneth is also on point. Next Governor maybe?

whoever thinks 3 billion is a large amount of money for places like Nakuru County (Naivasha [suswa] to Molo [londiani] and Subukia and Lower Solai to Likia) is joking. Nairobi City has total Revenue of 12 billions shillings....12 billion!! we are talking about 1/4 of that spread over large expanses as Illustrated....p.s. that means the national Government is losing out on Revenue...Since the Cake is still the same size (no one is talking about increasing the size of the cake only reapportioning it) as of this years budget Parliament was in agreement that the 977 million budget was living beyond our means. We are walking a tight rope that may snap as we add staff to our backs and redistribute the same amount of money (with administrative costs i.e. A larger parliament, A senate, county governments) - you will be taxed until you run dry ergo milking a dry udder will only make the government receive a Kick.

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.