Buy-in from counties critical for 'Big Four'

President Uhuru Kenyatta adress more than 20,000 leaders from Western Kenya while they were to discussing Jubilee's development agenda for the region in 2017 [PSCU]

Last week, 47 governors held a meeting in Nairobi that would pass for normal in other circumstances. But considering that what brought the leaders of the devolved governments together was principally selfish, and the presence of other players from outside their circle, the convention was everything but normal.

The county bosses, operating under their umbrella body, the Council of Governors, called the meeting after getting reports that the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) was coming after them following alleged irregularities in hiring men and women to sit in their county executive teams.