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If the economy is run by national government, where is devolution?

From left: Outgoing Devolution PS Julius Korir, Senate Speaker Amason Kingi and CRA Chairperson Jane Kiringai. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Our transformative Constitution offers a democratic construct that we continually refuse to process. We are one State and country, owned by one people who are sovereign (rulers).

Katiba demands that we are one nation. But we approved it on the basis that our multi-national identities would retain local voices, which is why we have 48 governments; one national and 47 county equivalents.

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