Why I disagree with BBI on increasing devolution funds

There is no doubt that devolution has had its share of success in the last seven or so years. It has also experienced myriad challenges. Perhaps more than its successes? Maybe. But one glaring issue we can all agree about is that majority of county development projects have been hopelessly ineffective. Yet the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report, at this juncture of rebooting our country, fails to immaculately pronounce itself on this issue.

I have posited before that amid the sustained challenges of devolution, the substantive waterloo remains the palpable poor management of development project. And to that far the BBI findings concur. It states in Chapter 9 that, “…they (Kenyans) want development projects to receive enough oversight to prevent wastage. Kenyans want means to report projects that are shoddily developed and to see this information acted on by the relevant institutions.”