Abolish and phase out tribes and mother tongue languages in Kenya and only then will we start voting leaders based on merit, ability and quality instead of tribal inclinations like we are doing now. Very simple solution.

[quote=hamburglar]Abolish and phase out tribes and mother tongue languages in Kenya and only then will we start voting leaders based on merit, ability and quality instead of tribal inclinations like we are doing now. Very simple solution.

Who/what engineered Kenya, and how was Kenya engineered?

Are there engineering standards to be met?

Or rather the whole matter is an engineering problem but which requires knowledge of how a human works.

So the entire question may be restated in terms of our understanding of how individuals work and whether there are optimal states and how the whole body politic fares statistically.

This offers a perspective that is supported by the practice and craft of bodies politics from the ancients.

So the prescription is to go back to our ancestors and ancients and rediscover the craft.

The nation state is a recent phenomenon to humanity. It's legal fiction engineered by lawyers and designed to benefit a small elite. The nation state has to be held together by force of arms, bribery of the elite through state jobs and tenders. The nation state is obsolete and it's likely to disappear by the turn of the century. Our obsession to create a nation state is tearing us apart.

Why can't we go back to the system of city states. Greek city states gave us the republic and democracy. Italian city states gave us the renaissance. The swahili city states lasted 500 years in prosperity and peaceful co-existence open trade. They created a distinctive culture and language. The history of humanity has been about creating cities and their hinterlands. That's the craft we need to rediscover

http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Beyond-IEBC--What-options-for-Kenya--/1056-4149152-kvksb2z/index.html

This is what we are saying. Much as Kenya is a democracy with majoritarian rule, we have a significant portion of the populace who support NASA, and indeed feel bitter that ‘they have never been able to capture state power since independence’ and that their man and only hope, is not making headway in this game in his ultimate or near ultimate contest. For these people to feel at home, to have dignity and sense of national pride, we need their leader to be in a position where he can present their grievances formally, not through the streets. Much as I don’t like his ways, I believe Rao should be leader of majority either in NA or Senate, with Kalonzo holding same position in the other house.

Yes he has caused us to stagnate, brought us to the precipice a number of times, but there are large number of people who believe he is a well meaning person. If you ignore their views, their anger will tend to manifest in other ways. You will keep hearing about Session.

And even if it was just for the sake of national security, it is too dangerous to have someone like Rao just out there ‘idle’. Remember good old practice, whereby when military generals retire, they are given some light duties to keep them busy. Otherwise Govt will spend next 5 years trying to contain him, and will be too distracted to focus on core business – building the nation. In deed this has been the case last 20 years…our politics have been dominated by raila phobia and raila mania, at the expense of development. Kibaki and Uhuru have spent nearly 50% of their time in power trying to manage/deal with these phobias at the expense of development.

Even Nzamba the man who delivered our Constitution believes it was a mistake to leave out the PORK runners up out there in the cold.
We don’t need a referendum to do this. Parliament only need to change section 90 of the constitution.

Yes, that reality was coldly served on 1 Sep 2017: numbers don't matter movement

The devolved govts should foster to being self sufficient, it may never happen entirely but a bigger % of their budget should be self funded, and decisions self determined. Even the states in the US have a % of their funding coming from the Federal govt.

As Masukush says, this conversation is pointless but as far as power sharing is concerned the governor who has got it right is Nanok and to some extend Mutua, the others are suffering from what Chebukati is suffering from, not realizing the power bestowed unto them.

By the way, Amazon intends to build a 2nd headquarters, all governors should have noted how the states went on bidding to host it. Will we ever see counties bidding to host companies? Bragging about infrastructure and all amenities to a good life?

While I think this conversation is a complete waste of time...
What ails us is that we think others are having fun out there and that our "differences" are unique to us. Majority of the countries have "ethnic issues". Secondly, we just need a proper source of money - we are a poor corrupt 3rd world country. We just need a country/people to exploit and f*ck over to get rich quickly