Cry of minority groups or political tact at reforms talks by those mandated to speak?

Kuria East MP Marwa Kitayama before the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) on October 3, 2023. [Denis Kibuchi, Standard]

Petitions by some community leaders and Members of Parliament (MPs) demanding their own counties are among key highlights of the just concluded dialogue talks at the Bomas of Kenya.

Some leaders have over the years claimed their ethnic groups are marginalized, underrepresented, poorly resourced, denied opportunities and generally mistreated by bigger communities within territories that they reside.