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Right from the start, there was something fishy about devolution—and I’m not talking about Prezzo Bill Ruto’s new-found love for frying fish, with his shirt sleeves folded. We should have seen him at sea fishing bare-chested, as proper fishermen do, before he got to the frying pan.
What I have in mind, as devolution marks 12 years this week, is what a brilliant political project this was. I admit it made a lot of sense to copy something from afar, like America. After all, the more foreign, the better.
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