Do you realize the implications of the traditional courts that were used in healing and reconciliation? That's a voice we can't yet afford here in Kenya at the moment.

@tycho what do traditional courts & genocide have to do with anything democracy!

Can a average Kenyan sue Uhuruto??? Yes!
Try and sue Kagame only if you are in need of an urgent appointment with your creator!

This discussion lacks any objectivity on your part which disappoints me a little considering someone of your intellect!

@tych and @ chida si devolution, donge? we have been devolving since Nyachae Nyandusi Snr and co. (achi, wachana ni hii kichana yake ya CIC) came up with District focus for Rural development?
Diambo and my beef is with the number of devolved units and county executives. The folly of our devolution experiment , coupled with the arrowroots and bumpkinheads that some governors are has been aptly captured by Philip Ochieng in this short essay.

Kenya's devolution worse than Mwalimu Nyereres Ujamaa Experiment.!

Just a few quotes and parallels with our scenario:
"Today Julius Nyerere – probably our epoch’s most honest political potentate – would not hasten to admonish Kenya with the warning: “Given your present circumstances, please do not try it.”

. . .
But even more vivid in my head is that Mwongozo came a cropper completely. In implementation, devolution proved ignominious.

Why? Because – as should have been obvious to us all along – deep layers of stinking social decay were what the ruling party (Tanu) had succeeded in devolving.

What we had moved from Dar es Salaam to Chamwino – the Ujamaa village that we, in the media, had been made to glorify as the ideal – were administrators and economic managers who, although pouring fulsome praise on Mwalimu and “socialism” at the top of their voices – were rotten to the core.

What Dar es Salaam’s Ikulu had sent to the “grassroots” to implement our devolution programme were incorrigible thieves, liars and braggadocios, men who wallowed like tausi in their own self-importance.

But the question is: Hasn’t anybody seen such waste and ostentation in Kenya’s present devolution process?,"

Nuff said unless you have been nominated to one of the 47 county executives or you are brother to a gabbana.
Let us cost our devolution do away with parliament have a senate only of 57 reps empower the counties which in the first place should have remain 8 the provinces and not the 47 jokes we have. . .
Happy sabbath, Sunday siku ya sermons enda Misa otherwise Ramadhan Karim

Let me begin with Mr. Ochieng. He's arguing for a strong and enlightened central government, and discourages the devolution of greed and unenlightenment. But isn't he contradicting himself here? Why, if there is enlightenment already can't we devolve it? What's enlightenment?

Now to your argument against the number of devolved units. The units can only increase in number, they can't be decreased. As for the costs, we need not look to the central government for funds. We need new economic models that involve changed government roles.