Kibaki and PNU Flip Flops as Devolution finds its way into Kibaki's PNU Manifesto..

The concept sneaked in, albeit at No 10 (the last item), in the PNU Manifesto.

But here's the comedy; speaker after speaker at the PNU manifesto launch spoke against ODM's Majimbo plan apparently oblivious of the fact that PNU had now sneaked in the exact same idea into their own elections "contract with Kenyans" as president Kibaki referred to his manifesto.

Of course the president pointed out quite clearly that the devolution they had in mind was "very" different from the ODM one. But then let us be honest here. This is like saying the multi party democracy Kanu was planning to introduce in 1991 was quite different from what the opposition then had in mind. Pure meaningless semantics, if you ask me.

So what has happened to change the president's mind? What has caused this about turn from the same man who called those pushing for devolution "dreamers" barely 2 weeks ago?


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Odhiambo