Whoever heard, in the colonial government and in independent Kenya, that something called "public participation" is important in policy and law making? The law prepared to privatise our industries had not been subjected to public participation. On that score, and that score alone, the court gave us an injunction stopping the exercise until public participation was carried out. The creation of regional blocs is a logical response to dealing with this problem of "economies of scale" in enhancing the potential for development of counties. The new Constitution could go further to formalise regionalism in law without necessarily dismantling the counties as they are today.

Source: The Star February 01, 2019 21:00 UTC