[SIZE=4][FONT=verdana][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Raila Odinga is proposing, a [COLOR=rgb(85, 57, 130)]three tier government that will see current devolution units maintained but clustered in 12 regional blocs. Is this really a good idea? nesting additional bureaucracy upon another layer of bureaucracy is bad for development. Kenyan tax payers’ resources will be used to pay people to do nothing but spend 5 years politicking. How does the third tier make the existing ones for efficient, effective and less corrupt?[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=4][FONT=verdana]We need to revaluate the whole thing, it does not make governance sense to have so many MPs, Senators and Governors. How can we have both an extensive federalist and semi-unitary system in one small country? Whose experiment are we trialling?[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=4][FONT=verdana]Raila further states the current devolved units are not attractive to large scale investors; very likely to be true, but what sort of investors, Land speculators and buyers…or those intend on setting game parks on agricultural land!!
We need to reduce the current counties or consolidate some of them, reducing the number of county assemblies; to reduce running cost and duplication of investment or development activities within close proximity of one another, which might lead to failure.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=4][FONT=verdana]If we reduced the counties all we need is to set in place is an Ombudsman, at a regional level and national level whose tasks is to identify systematic issues leading to poor service or breaches of people’s rights; at the national level, to have authority and a wide mandate to deal with the public sector, and also elements of the private sector. Example, If we have a firm running a fraud scheme defrauding thousands of people, the ombudsman has the right to act on behave of the citizen.[/FONT][/SIZE]
The devolution was a manifesto from raila and his then team.
Good idea yes but to many people on the government payroll as a result.
This now is on the other hand a terrible idea, considering we already have too many positions that aren’t productive.
We need to cut down on the political positions and have more productive positions.
God knows we have the manpower, we don’t need more politicians.
RAO ni mtu mambo kubwa, I guess he feels that the only way he can consolidate power. Wonder what his presidency would have looked like ?
Miguna Miguna once claimed he advised him that Kenya needed a prime minister, when the Naivasha draft was on the making, but shockingly, RAO said he needed all the executive power to rule .
Leave politics to the politicians, your only obligation is to make sure your vote counts for the right cause. Wakileta ujinga we consign it to the dust bin.
haendi mahali. kwani the last time alikuwa prime minister iliwekwa kwa katiba? Hio kiti huwa anapewa atulie maisha iendelee kidogo. Siku za Moi alikuwa anapewa ministry anatulia kwanza. Ni kama kababy.
“Shika toto, cheza na hio.” Alafu 2022 kikiumana tena aende akalilie Miguna tena akiambiwa I told you so. Cycle continues.