Without good faith from all Kenyans, devolution will fail

By Charles Kanjama

The annual conference of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) proved to be the intellectual and political centre for the debate on devolution this past week. The theme of LSK’s conference was, “Realising Devolution and Decentralisation under the Constitution.” One speaker explained the difference between these two concepts: “Devolution means distributing power and functions; decentralisation means distributing service delivery.”