Governor Anyang Nyongo Statement: Ruto Regime Is Derailing Devolution

This is in reference to the ongoing spat between the County Governments and the National Government over the management of roads funds.

The Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) and the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) need not exist if the national government is prepared to fully implement Devolution. The counties manage health effectively and efficiently. The national government cannot even manage Kenyatta National Hospital, one of the very few health entities in its hands.

The truth is that the Ruto regime has decided to go back to pre-devolution times of the Nyayo era. The 2010 Constitution is a hindrance to its primitive accumulation schemes, which will affect not only Devolution but the very ethos of building a national democratic and developmental state.

The Council of Governors and all progressive forces in our Republic need to be aware of this fact and to resist it by all means necessary. The achievements of the Second Liberation must not be destroyed by this regime.