EDITORIAL
When the concept of devolution was mooted and politicians and activists put their weight behind the idea, many saw a new dawn in which years of neglect from the centre would in one stroke come crashing down.
But sadly only 12 short years later, the lofty dreams have evaporated replaced with scepticism and widespread disillusionment.
The mere mention of counties conjures up images of corrupt self-seeking governors and their slimy cabals.
Governors who instead of providing leadership in villages where desperation became part of the societal fabric for decades, have joined the bandwagon of administrative bandits wrenching out the last vestige of hope from a people wooed with promises of a better education, better medicine, better agriculture and a better standard of life.
Audit report after audit report reveals the grim truth governors would like to hide from the poor desperate electors.
Counties long lost their way, converted into the playground of legions of feckless, visionless bureaucrats who blindly believe primitive accumulation of public cash is a celebration of their ingenuity.
Counties have dropped so low that hardly any can develop a development budget because cronyism has been elevated into a religion in which the governor is the high priest.
The betrayal marks the slow and sure death of a grand dream.
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Quote of the day: “Failure too is a form of
death.” —English novelist Graham Greene died
on April 3, 1991
