Kenya: Are These Teething Problems or Devolution Gone Haywire?

25 January 2014
analysis

Traders, hawkers and bodaboda operators have taken to the streets of Mombasa, Kakamega, Meru, Nairobi, Machakos, Thika, Nakuru and elsewhere to demonstrate against high taxes by their county governments.

These high taxes make one ask whether devolution was intended to benefit ordinary people or enrich a new elite of county leaders? And is it possible to implement devolution with taxes people cannot afford?

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