The journey has not always been smooth. The first two multiparty elections in 1992 and 1997 involved significant levels of state-sponsored violence that left thousands dead.
In politics, legitimacy is a currency. It allows losers of elections to accept to be governed by their competitors.
We run the risk of falling into the middle-income trap, a situation whereby economies stagnate at a certain level of income on account of a lack of innovation and endemic inequality.
If UDA wants to keep winning national elections, it is in their best interest to visibly champion devolution.
The bravery of the youth to confront their leaders who swindled them is commendable evidence that future generations will not take misgovernance in silence.
The past is gone, so we must focus on the future. When looking ahead at the next ten years of devolution, two things come to mind that ought to be the focus of governments in the devolved units.
We still lack a coherent process of policy communication. Most people, including “experts” appear not fully aware of what prompted the policy moves.
Who exactly is scared of Somalis? As a country, we need to ask this uncomfortable question and then educate our fellow citizens.
President William Ruto hosted our region and the world and in so doing established our position as a serious stakeholder in the global discourse on climate change and potential solutions.
Our parties are poorly institutionalised. They are also personalist. A party that has to expel members for disloyalty lacks the organisational mechanisms for screening candidates
The idea, based on the limited available information, appears to be to crowd in as much of the sourcing of materials and skills as possible within the Ethiopian economy.
While reasonable people may quibble with specific tactics or policy positions, it is generally a good thing that the President is out there selling Brand Kenya.
This week’s Cabinet reshuffle was, in effect, an admission by President William Ruto that he selected a sub-par cabinet.
President William Ruto is on record castigating the idea of “shareholders in government,” principally championed by his Deputy Rigathi Gachagua, as “primitive and backward.”
How does the new plan fit with county-level primacy over the sector? Is the government intent on re-nationalising the health sector?
Most reasonable people would agree there is a need to rationalise the higher education sector.
As the government seeks to raise enough revenue to pay for public goods and services and interest on our debts, the medicine should not be worse than the disease.
Taxation without evidence of benefits will drive ever more Kenyans to evade taxes. Furthermore, the government should make it clear that everyone is bearing their fair share.
Meru County is staring at political collapse. MCAs have twice impeached Governor Kawira Mwangaza accusing her of misgovernance and nepotism.
There is a lot more to economic policymaking than meeting deadlines set by the International Monetary Fund. The IMF are firefighters.
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