It's time to decentralise how we are taxed, policed and governed

Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala’s disparaging comments about Taita Taveta County’s desire to manage the massive Tsavo National Parks were deeply disappointing and insulting. He implied the county was incompetent and was too poor to manage the parks, which are currently managed centrally from Nairobi by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).

He neglected to mention that perhaps one of the reasons the county is so poor is precisely because it derives little income and benefits from parks that cover more than 60 per cent of the county.