Decentralised UDC govt: Panacea for service delivery or recipe for tribalism?

 The coalition’s draft manifesto states that UDC will have, ‘A government and governance system that is decentralised and close to the people they serve’.

It further states that ‘Public services do not reach the ordinary people or are slow to reach them. Long lines are common in hospitals and clinics’.  Writing about decentralisation in Africa, Stephen Ndengwa, academic and researcher finds that, “In nearly all African countries, structures of local administration exist but are often subordinated in their legal creation, mandate and operation to the central state, especially the executive”.