We have been told to read the BBI report first then have a conversation as a people on the proposals. Now, let’s talk about proposals on county governments’ development projects spending. Since the onset of devolution, I have been a critic, and rightfully so, of how county governments have been implementing development projects.
To date, I am still not persuaded that framers of our devolution framework had immaculate thoughts on the development projects implementation criteria. In my mind, they thought it was an obvious task – and so it should be – yet amid the sustained challenges of devolution that we have witnessed hitherto, the substantive waterloo has been the palpable poor implementation of projects. There has been despicable carelessness, terminal bias and profound laziness in projects implementation.