We need to devolve!!

The constitution is out. People have started talking, and so have we. The governments decision on devolution from our side; not fair. Do you think it is? maybe!! Let's take a look a it. Today we are more than 35000000 people in Kenya, and there lies the constitution, ruling out nearly all the decisions being thrown at. And then comes the people who want to make the decisions, and don't forget those that also go against the decisisons. Going against the decisions is not bad at all but forcing them in is what were want to avoid. In this case devolution is our problem. So, let's see what is this thing called devolution we are talking about; is it just giving powers out to different countys?, is it removing powers from the centralized government or could it be both. Devolution is to do with power so it is simply the statutory granting of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to government at a subnational level, such as a regional, local, or state level, but, it differs from federalism in that the powers devolved may be temporary and ultimately reside in central government.

What problems do we get having a undevolved government?

Today we have thousands of business men that travel world wide, besides the fact that dual passports are illegal; every time a new passport or a passport has to be re-registered; the process can take weeks as it has it is done where you are, processed in Nairobi than has to also come back to your region. This does only annoy people but also make work slow that can slow done a lot of the countries business.

Any time a major decision has been made it is done in Nairobi and if done far away from Nairobi Like in Mombasa. The public has nearly ‘No’ chance to stop or address them immediately. E.g. when the government made the decision of break down the Nakumatt in Mombasa as they claimed it was disturbing the road and or blocking the road. The government had broken it down even before anything could be done to stop it.

Beside the fact a town or city needs to be able to communicate to the government directly and fast, doesn’t the government needs to also do the same incase of any problem as directly and fast.

Our city has far so many more people, roads, buildings, lights e.t.c When ever bills are paid for car parking, water, electricity and so on the profit is then taken to Nairobi and then distributed “fairly” that is wrong, how can a city like Mombasa receive nearly the same amount of money to improve their town or city, as Limuru.

Above we have many advantages of devolution, the government most probably have considered these but what have they done about devolution and why have they not done the rest:

Today, we, as a country looks alot at what the country is not doing, but we should starting giving a bit of attention to what the country is doing. Kimani Maruge, my old friend who I just met a few years ago before he past away, this man was known world wide, but did we as a country think a bout his feeling towards the government. When did he become a student? Why did he become a student? have we ever thaught about that. Kimani became a student when the first primary school that was actually free opened. How and why did it open where it opened? It opened where it opened simply because the government had past out a bit of power to the country's, where this one took an advantage and open a whole school not knowing what will happen and later on got a huge amount of international support.

Having done this, the country they got a lot of credit but what about the county heads. Fine the government got high credit but did they expand on it. NO!!! What they said is that if they countinue giving power, they will be spending a lot of money employing, giving and offering jobs e.t.c but that was just an excuse.

Just what is the government doing about it

At the perticular moment as you can watch in the video below the government is explaing what they have done in order to devolve the country and they say that they have given the county's the power to look after the schools that are currently free in the country and that they have not given so much power so that they would not face country or county conflicts which could break down huge roles.

What else is the government doing about it? Is there anyone supporting it?

Devolution to benefit Rift, Karua advises

If you read the article where Gichugu MP Martha Karua has asked Rift Valley residents to support the proposed law, since devolution will bring resources closer to them, she supports devolution and has also made a very clear word.

In the above article Martha Karua talks about why devolution of the government is important and how it will help the residents of Rift Valley.

She tells the residents on radio before this article was posted in the paper, that they should support her on proposing the law as it will help them a lot in many ways e.g. the government will help solve the county problems faster, there will be more money to improve the area e.t.c. She also mentions that about other issues not involving devolution. At the end she say’s she will do her best to help resolve this issue and all the others

W hat do people of the country have to say about it?

I interviewed people before makig this blog and I also found one where this man called Mr. Mwangi, who is a Kenya kikuyu citizen from Kisumu had a huge complain about money. He says that he pays a lot of taxes and that all the money his town pays just goes to Nairobi and when it comes back it is less he quoted to major lines that were: "pesa inaenda wapi?" and "Mimi ninatoa pesa na yeye ana tumia"

What do you think, where does the money go?

Do you think we need to devolve the country?

Do the county's already have enough power?

Is it a bad idea to give them mor power?