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Devolution at 10: Counting the major hits and misses

Kiambu County officials celebrate after emerging position three in the presentation and documentaries category during the Devolution Conference in Eldoret on August 18, 8, 2023. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

Under the 2010 Constitution, devolution was seen as the silver bullet. Resources, it was argued, would devolve to the grassroots, read counties. And unconditionally.

Jobs would be created and Nairobi would get competitors. Kenyans would start boasting of their counties, more like Americans and their states or Germans and their landers.

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