I have encountered 3 chiefs so far, and in all my encounters they have played the role of propping an authoritarian rule. But such a rule is no longer tenable. I 'fear' that retaining the chief is an attempt to retain a decadent culture.

It became an unruly mashinani when the Chiefs were stopped from caining philandering husbands and drunkards. It would be sadder now if they were removed. My grandma always prides herself in having the chiefs cellphone number on her phone

So in a nutshell, what you are saying is we stop calling them chiefs, because the name reminds us of colonial humiliation and instead call them small claims court because it sounds 20th century-like?

This is where we go wrong. We haven't woken up to the fact that we now have a chance to create an administrative system that is pro the masses. I know that the 'middle class' person may prefer to have the chief because the chief was created to support this class. For example, I once attended a baraza that tacitly approved the killing of youth who cause 'insecurity'. This sort of criminology is loved by the middle class who believe that they are entitled to what they have by virtue of hard work only. Of course this is what our schooling has made us believe. But this is far from true.

There are very many people who are languishing under this political and administrative system!

It's time we had the government work for the masses just as it works for the middle and ruling classes. And this doesn't need a person who wield a baton and scare us with his 'Wazee wa kijiji' and police.

The bigger the government, the more the transgressions of the ruled, and you can imagine what will happen when taxes go up amid increasing unemployment! Crime will go up and in no time the middle class will be seeking refugee status!

The government needs an administrative structure that will prevent this and as far as I can see, the chief and his office need massive re-structuring.