Let the MPIGSs be as many as possible like a school, even 450 (although 300 is OK) (divided into several house committees with SERIOUS legislative targets), and performance measurements which can be published (Kama report forms za shule for each student/MPIG) in the newspapers for each Kenyan to see what % points their MPIG scored, Kenyans will be able to now SEE if the MP they chose can WORK not just SPEAK, and KNOW what work the MPIGS do, most Kenyans do not UNDERSTAND it, so their powers can be trimmed and the legislative authority to extract money from the public be snipped by a 47 member senate that we support as "more powerful" in legislation, let the 47 senators represent the topmost echelons of legislative authority including governing the funding heading to counties (and interpreting the LEGISLATIVE power TO ADD ONES OWN SALARY, these Senators are really "wealthy" anyway. Let this 47 represent the ultimate "Council of Elders", "The Upper House" in Kenya. I support, eventually it will cut spending on the legislature. 47 people is better than 150 people.

I have very high hopes for our county, i can't disclose details because it is like dealing with "insider information", however i believe our county was the first to hold an investor conference and it was very "timaam", if your counties have problems, you can wait five years to sort them, or hustle your senator to STOP funding from central gaarment, till the thick Governor is explained to what he is supposed to do, not that ALL county governments be scrapped because yours is not working, Alphie the Dodo will claim he is working wonders, why stop him?.

All we need to remove from the Constitution is the "cord-like" mechanical doctrines such as the Senior Most Public Administrators including Cabinet Secretaries being interviewed by someone else on behalf of the President and the President is then given a shortlist, The constitution will flow, hio ikitolewa, Agwambo can put it back later if he ever, ever gets a chance.

The idea behind devolution isn't about 'representation' but 'self presentation' and 'direct democracy'.

A representative government can't express the will of the people, because there's no sufficient communication and there's great conflict of interest and markets are heavily distorted. How can we then ask for more representation by cutting on the number representatives?

For now I know that counties have high wage bills and taxes because that's the strategy that's known. But is this the only way to create and run an economy? How can economic systems run in the counties and increase disposable incomes for each citizen? And keep less costs of living?

Those officials idling in the county offices are indicative of ill designed economic systems, and poor leadership.

Even then now the way things are bad with the counties, most of those who want them abolished are from backyards of the two leaders of Jubilee!!!!!

Anything wrong with that? I guess its a good sign, free brains rather than having an old demented geezer carrying a brain for you. :'(

How did we get here?

There were some issues. Chief among them being equitable distribution of wealth(national cake or ugali), proportionate representation and gender representation.

Thus we created counties to help us with the distribution of the cake. The county executives had to have some oversight hence your MCAs.

We increased the constituencies to sort the problem of (dis)proportionate representation(one man one vote). This is the most misunderstood thing. Most people have never really grasped that the main purpose of parliament is representation. Legislatures exist because we cannot hold referenda on everything from budget to approving members of anti-FGM Board...we thus elect a few people to represent us in decision making and oversight! These people are your honourable memebers of national assembly, senate and county assemblies!

Now, when it comes to decision making, would you want a case where 1000 people are represented by 1 rep while another 500,000 are also represented by 1 rep?

We also added 47 special seats for women as an affirmative action for the fairer gender who had been 'disadvantaged for decades'