We should expand our national cake to avert scramble for resources

Building a prosperous nation has been our aspiration and a key national goal right from independence in 1963. Close to 60 years later, however, creating a prosperous nation remains just an aspiration, not a reality. The concept of equitable sharing, which we have embraced as a nation only leads to the type of acrimony we witnessed in the Senate from July until last Thursday over how to share Sh316.5 billion.

The size of the National Cake appears smaller over the years while the number of people waiting for a share has grown. That is why sharing Sh316 billion among 47 counties becomes a threat to our stability and unity as a nation. A dwindling national cake for an increasingly angry and hungry population that is also fed on populist politics is an accident waiting to happen.