WHAT WENT WRONG WITH DEVOLUTION IN KENYA
Devolution, theoretically, means power to the people at the grassroots. In practice, however, I think devolution is taken to simply mean power to autonomous or semi-autonomous local units of government. Does power to semi-autonomous local units of government mean power to the people at the grassroots? This is a debatable issue. Is devolution in Kenya working? Absolutely, in so far as resources and autonomous decision making power has been granted to local units of government. Devolution is working because places like Bungoma County have a guaranteed national allocation of at least 5.5billion Kshs every financial year. With such like money going to local units of government across the country, definitely there is a change. What kind of change? Definitely, such money to the extent it is appropriated and used in the local units of government is bound to unlock potential in the local economies. We trust that whoever is accessing and using the resources does spend in the local busine