If Presidency is everything, then devolution was in vain

There is a worrying trend in our politics. The region and tribe of whoever becomes president are troubling Kenyans so much that we don't care about the caretakers of devolution, the governor and the MCAs. If our salvation as a nation is rested on the tribe and our president's backyard, then the much-hyped devolution encapsulated in chapter 11 of our Constitution was hewn in vain.

Columnist Kamotho Waiganjo in his May 1, 2016 opinion article entitled “Failures of counties killing the devolution promise", enlisted growing corruption, theft and mismanagement of county resource as the ruination of county governments. Kamotho pointed out fodder for Kenyans to turn their guns to county governments for their rescue.