Historia ni muhimu.
1962 Kenya province and boundaries was done by Prof from Manchester university who lead a commission that went round the country.
They gaves us the 8 provinces and districts that largely reflected how people wanted it to be.
In 1962 there were very few kikuyus outside Central and Nairobi.
Those in RV - white highlands - had been evicted back to central - and confined to reserves - as Mau Mau containment
Settlers fearing attacks from Mau mau - had replaced kikuyu farm labour with other tribes.
Now we are in 1962 - there was commission that went asking people where they wanted to be.
Generally Tribe was most important consideration for district.
Tribal alliance for province.
1962 - remain the foundation of our 47 counties - I think they were initial 42 - original 42.
Kenyatta split Embu to create Kirinyanga, Nakuru to create Nyandarua - both were only ones that moved provinces - ostensibly because kenyatta wanted central prov to be a little big than 3 districts.
SONY to create Migori from Homabay.
Moi in 1990s then split Kisii to create Nyamira, Kericho to create Bomet, Machakos to create Makueni, Meru to create Tharaka Nithi.
He also split Kakamega to create Vihiga.
These were done properly - followed the law - which required some stuff done legally.
Moi created bunch of many others. Kibaki came and simply created 200 more and made nonsense of it.
In Naivasha it was resolved to go back to 1962 - with 4 kenyatta additions - and 4 Moi additions - that were legally done.
That gave us 47 counties that largely are tribal and very good. Few minor issues need to be dealt with by IEBC.
As for old provinces - many people were unhappy with them - and it's good they have gone.
Province or regional dont solve any problem - except create big tribal alliances and problems.
Counties are the best. They are no too big to create problems. They are tribal enough to create sense of nationhood in them.
So hapo we agree 100 percent. Regions will create Ethiopia like problems. Regions or province would be so big to challenge National Gov.Martha PSC insisted that constitution declare it was unitary - not a federal system of gov - and I think she won.
Which numbers ? The districts were created for administrative reasons only.
We know how colonial government had marginalized GEMA for poliyical reasons and hence created Provinces in the manner they did to ensure they safeguarded their interests and Kept GEMA divided.
Actually give Credit to Karua when ODM in Naivasha talks were indicating they will go with Regiinal Governments .Karua was on the side she was saying Central should expanded to consist parts of Rift Valley and Eastern which have same cultural ties.
Ofcourse the KKK combination of Uhuru Ruto and Kalonzo defeated ODM.
Many wondered why Ruto couldnt take advantage of Regionalism and colonise other tribes in Rift Valley but give it to Ruto he was a visionary . Counties was the way to go. ODM tried to use that against Ruto and really backfired.
Kiboko of ODM and Raila has been Ruto , so helpless are ODM ans Raila that they have decided to seek Uhurus help but still they will not be able to beat him.
Alijaribu kuimba in Nakuru and kikuyus pale where like what language is that. Yes Ki-ndia/Ki-gichugu is closer to embu than kikuyus - it's just that jomo kenyatta needed more numbers in central province- which then had three districts (Kiambu,Muranga, Nyeri) - so in 1966 or about - he splitted Embu district - carved out Ndia & Gichugu - and moved it central. He did the same for Nyandarua - carving it out of Nakuru.
Karua only excites about 44K in the mountain. Those gichugus and ndia people that speaks broken Kikuyu language!
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