Devolution Conference a flop as solutions not reached

Devolution has been operational for the last three years now and in almost all the 47 counties all we see and hear are unending health workers and public workers strikes. Right now, all the governors are converged in Meru for the Devolution Conference aimed at strengthening the "successes" of devolution.

However, as these excellency heads of our counties arrive for the conference in flashy fuel guzzlers and fleets of escort vehicles fitted with noisy sirens, poor Kenyans are sleeping on cartons in hospitals. Nurses too are up in arms in several hospitals over unpaid salaries.

In fact, graft, infighting and mismanagement of public funds have been the major highlights of our county governments for the last three years. Kenyans have been taken advantage of by these county leaders whom we handed the mantle to, to manage resources in the first leg of devolution in Kenya.

Ironically, much of what these Governors will be talking about in this conference is how their citizens are contented with their leadership. They have to paint a good picture to the electorate since the General Election is just around the corner.

As I wind up, Kenyans, these crop of leaders have nothing in their agendas concerning you. All there is, is greed and corruption. We need to be wiser next time we go to the ballot to choose our leaders lest we chose the wrong leadership and suffer for the next five years.