Uhuru and Devolution. What Did I say?

[Omollo]

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The problem with Uhuru and his clique is that every time they read the new constitution whatever does not conform to the old one is treated as a mistake and "corrective measures" taken to restore Status quo ante.

This has been the basic tenet in whatever ideology that Uhuru pursues. His is not about widening democracy. Rather it is how he can retain more power and curtail democracy and choice.

As minister for Finance, he helped to water down the budgeting process and insited on "reading" the budget - something non existent in the current constitution. Five years later the budget making process envisaged in the constutition has largely been ignored and the powers of the minister for finance to "make the budget" alone and simply seek approval of parliament has been restored.

Now the next frontier is Devolution. Uhuru has openly been hostile to Devolution. From eliminating provinces as the basis for Devolution and creating mostly economically unstainable units called counties, to scrooging revenue sharing. Uhuru is unhappy with the 15% for counties - even as he seeks to own the projects by the counties conceived and carried out without his or his government's input.  The amount given to counties has never met the 15% ceiling and Uhuru unlike NASA has never offered to increase the amount to levels that would bring equity between the national Government and the County government.

So now he has borrowed a leaf from his Father and has assigned a Minister for Devolution. He has set to work directing county governments. Be prepared from more directives from the minister for devolution to county governments. That is how it started with Kenyatta and Mboya. Mboya stopped his motorcade to strip the car of the Coast President of his flag. He was having none of it.

When he reached Nairobi, he paraded the flag in parliament and gave orders that nobody shall be called "President" except Jomo Kenyatta. The Minister for Justice had spoken. The Attorney General (who wasn't allowed in parliament by Mboya) had spoken.