The retirement age is 60yrs so civil servants should kaa ngumu. Politicians come and go but the civil servants remain. Those same civil servants served moi, Kibaki, Kibaki & Raila, and now Uhuru govt. So uhuruto should go slowly. Otherwise the civil servants and their families/supporters, wellwishers and wananchi should kick out uhuruto in 2017.

Clear hangovers from the old katiba. Who in the new constitution has powers to hire staff at county level??..

Some counties like Baringo are rejecting staff seconded from the national governmment and hiring their own people from their tribe. This devolution is actually the majimbo people were afraid of

Even in next door machakos county, they have said that it's only mkamba doctors who should be employed. Picture this, a luo/okuyo doctor can work in the US, Britain, France, Mongolia etc, but NOT in machakos county. What kind of ujinga is this that came with the new katiba? That is why i voted NO!

The way I see it, unfortunately, is that implementation of the county system is going to institutionalize and entrench tribalism like never before, the self-same majimbo we were afraid of. Just the other day, a relative who comes from a different county but has settled in my county by virtue of marriage was forced to run all over looking for documents from gov't offices to confirm her status and identity, all because some other gov't dep't didn't wanna hire her on the basis that she isn't from the local tribe.

Part of the reason for the rising wage bill is that most counties are insisting on hiring their own while staff at HQs who previously performed the now devolved functions are left under-utilized.