Midzichenda political nymphites want powerful regional governments

Constitution   

         

DEC  16,2009

By EUGENE OMILO

The Midzichenda Youth Association has endorsed the views presented by the Coast Constitutional Convention to the Committee of Experts (C o E).

The association’s chairman Patrick Birya said they support the demand to have more powerful regional governments terming the current provisions regarding devolution as mere ‘plastic surgery’. 

He said all national institutions including the police service should be regionalized so that each region hires their own force according to the region’s demand.

“We want the provincial administration to be scrapped so that governors can be the sole links between the regions and the central government,” said Birya during a press conference in Mombasa yesterday.

On land the association proposed that only indigenous people of a region be issued with freehold title deeds while residents who originated from other regions be given lease holds for up to 40 years.

He said the National land commission be replaced with regional land commissions to give the regions complete authority over their land.

ENDS.