Kenyans should not peg development on the ‘right party’

It sounds quite retrogressive in this day of global political advancement, generally speaking, to hear of some Kenyan politicians luring opponents to the ‘winning party’ because they will not develop their areas if they are not in government.

This demonstrates that learning from experience is indeed difficult for most of us. We spent many years fighting for the (new) constitution, largely to run away from political enslavement by those in power. The idea of devolution as we have come to know it since the 2013 General Election is mainly anchored on distributive justice. In the past, national resources were shared on “sweet nothings”. That is, you needed to pledge loyalty to be able to stand at the table from which crumbs of national resources could spill for you to “develop your area”.