Public interest should guide governors’ actions at CoG forum

There will be great expectations from the public when the country’s 47 governors troop to Mombasa for the Council of Governors induction forum from tomorrow. But already there is controversy brewing following a new push to have the meeting converted in an Annual General Meeting to elect new leaders.  So while the public will be expecting these leaders to provide a roadmap indicating how best to secure the interest of those in the grassroots, there will be politics at play.

There are already ominous signs that intra-party conflicts will spill over to the meeting with Jubilee-aligned leaders already signalling that they want to remove Turkana’s Josephat Nanok as chairman even though he still has many months to go before his two-year term ends in May 2019.