Devolution is changing lives despite numerous setbacks

This was Devolution week, as County Government functionaries took over Governor Peter Munya’s Meru kingdom for their third Devolution Conference. To skeptics and national level politicians it was “Governors week”, a chest-thumping forum for governors to proclaim their achievements while playing down their failures.

Despite the obvious bad blood I really wish the President and the national legislators attended the jamboree; the same way I sometimes wish the governors would be invited for the State of the Nation address. Truth be told, we are all in the Kenyan mess together and the sooner we learn to tolerate each other, the better for this nation.