Leadership should drive nation’s renewal

A friend bemoaned the skyrocketing land rates in his county saying he was paying three times what he used to pay for his parcel of commercial land. In his opinion County Governments should be scrapped since he cannot see what development has come to his county. As my rates compliant friend mused, billions of shillings that his county has received have left very little evidence of ever having landed there, like a desert mist that dissipates without trace. It is not a thought present in many people's minds. I have heard some advocating for the scrapping of the senate as well.

Yet in theory, ours is a good Constitution which was specifically designed to avoid concentration of power at the centre. When things were not working, we thought it was because there was a structural problem with the system. Some went as far as reducing the problem to one man.