The National government has been in existence for the last 50 years yet there is nothing fundamental to write home about in transforming lives and welfare of the people. It is still highly susceptible to high-level corruption lacking systematic and effective accountability mechanisms. In less than one year, in spite of establishment problems and unwilling support from national government, county governments have succeeded in making an impact on the ground. County governments need to breathe life to constitutional policy changes and strengthen their institutions of governance. Currently their approach to enforcing constitutional principles is very timid allowing national government space to bully and intimidate them. The Senate, although custodian of devolution, seems to have no grasp of its core policy and legal mandate to facilitate and midwife effective devolved system of governance. It occupies itself with mundane matters rather than fixing the fundamental policy and legal structural deficits crucial to properly functioning devolution. Senate should not be occupying itself with nomenclature and forms issues. Its primary focus at this initial stage of existence should be on the substantial issues of how and what overall restructuring of old centralized state and agencies. Failure to restructure the old state to provide maximum power, functions and rights to the County governance is at the heart of devolution implementation crisis.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 04:25:42 +0000
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