Regionalism is the only viable option for Kenya

I agree with you Bw Odundo. We don't need a unitary state to develop. What we need is economic integration and free trade. Local Revenue and Taxation,
Regional Planning for infrastructure-roads, rail, water supply, telecommunications, urban and regional planning, transport and infrastucture,
environment, schools, hospitals, colleges and universities, policing and
administration-should all be a local affair. Orders from Nairobi have not worked and will never work. The country is too polarised with too much suspicion. I can't see hoe the beneficiaries under the present system can yield to allow others access power and economic empowerment. Like Musikari Kombo says, ( he was inLondon to meet Luhyas last Month) we shsll be in the next Government as well irrespective of who forms it. With this view, they have nothing of principle to fight for other that their stomachs.

  Lets move on and break up the country into autonomour self governing
Regions.It works all over the world. ERven England is much more decentralised that Kenya- Local authorities have alot of control over matters in their jurisdiction_ Police, Revenue, Parking, Council Tax, rates Health service,
marriage Licence, Fire Brigade etc.
 
  We cant be held at ransom by accomplished thieves and murderers for ever
  Thanks
   Joseph Okumu

odundo@jaluo.com wrote:

  Of course you are right Bw. Okumu.
In Luo land, here are the more prominent results of this 43 year old political
experiment called "nationalism".

Oruko maKasembo, killed 1964
Agwenge Kodhek, killed 1969
Tom Mboya wuod Ndiege, killed 1969
Horace Owiti Ongili, killed 1985
Otieno wuod Ambala, killed 1985
Robert Ouko wuod Seda, killed 1990
Oyugi Hezekiah, killed 1992
Odhiambo Mbai, killed 2003
Harrison Wayoga , killed 2004

The list is much, much longer for the so called "collateral damage" deaths;
those that died for the politicians, those that died from lack of amenities
because their villages/areas are neglected by the "nationalist" government,
those that died from mungiki clashes, and then the hundreds of thousands other
deaths from poor infrastructures like the Kisumu/Nairobi/Mombasa road carnages.

You would think that after 43 years, the political experimenters (nationalists)
would have by now satisfied themselves that the results of the experiment is
consistently proven unworkable beyond reasonable doubt.

People, life expectancy in Luo Nyanza is only 40 years! Luos have gotten poorer waiting for that perfect nationalist to deliver. Every election time, I hear the same song, "Wang'ni to wayude". Till when? Where is the proof?

I put it to you that nationalists are a minority in Kenya. People do not want
too much government. Nationalism is too much government! People like the idea of free trade within Kenya and even East Africa and beyond. They just don't like some big men and women nationalists chocking them from the top out of some headquarters in Nairobi.

What you well paid MPs should be doing for the common man is to pass a straight forward law in parliament that devolves power to the people. It is a simple act, yet it is the most important legislation to get the people out of this quagmire.  

You do not need a constitutional review committee that sits for ever, or walk
out/walk in to do that. You simply go to parliament with a bill in your hand and
do it. It is already in your job description to do this kind of thing, you know.

Odundo jaKarateng'.

Quoting Joseph Okumu :

Dear All,

The issue of constitution making in Kenya is as Old as kenya itself. Self
interest and the incessant desire by a small elite minority to Lord it over
every other community in Kenya is the issue. They want power to enslave all
the others . Thie obviously will not work.

Solution, just partition Kenya into Autonomoue regions. That way let the
hard headed be dealt with through econimics without having to mess up
everybody else and waste our valuable time PERIOD. We can't spend lifelime
fighting on obvousl issue which even those in primary school, leave alone
graduates, do understand. Like Frantz Joseph Strauss, the late Bavarian Prime
Minister used to say, some argue like their brains have been amputated
We are wasting time and many generations are giving up. It is time to stop it.

Joseph