
Musalia mugadili
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Musalia mugadili
@MMugadili
Professor in the health and science department at St Augustine College












































History recalls a powerful metaphor from the French Revolution, attributed rightly or wrongly to Marie Antoinette. When informed that the people of Paris were protesting because they had no bread, she is said to have responded, “Why don’t they eat cake?” “Let them eat cake” was privilege blinded by abundance. When leaders mock Northern Kenya for lacking skyscrapers, they erase Kenya’s truth: almost all glittering national infrastructure national schools, colleges, and industries was built for other regions, while our region was left behind for over 50 years under colonial rule and 60 years post-independence. Devolution found devolved sectors virtually non-existent, forcing pioneer governors to resuscitate everything from scratch. And we went further. Using devolution funds, we built technical training colleges (a national government function), teachers’ training college (national), medical training college (national), urban roads in Mandera town (national), paid for KPR (national), and supported national security infrastructure not because we had money to spare, but because insecurity made it an inevitable necessity; without these interventions, our counties would have been left ungovernable. Northern leaders are not perfect, but no one has moral authority to ridicule us unless they can objectively compare devolution investments alone across regions. I guarantee you: remove decades of national government investment elsewhere, and there is very little to compare with what Northern Kenya built through devolution alone. youtu.be/vJbxx7Om1Xo?si… @NationAfrica @StandardKenya @KTNNewsKE @CitizenTVKenya @ntvkenya @K24Tv @TheStarKenya @PeopleDailyKE





















