Innovating to unlock the livestock economy

A visit last week to the Rumuruti livestock market brought back memories of past debates with colleagues in the 10th Parliament. In the lead up to the Constitution of Kenya 2010, the marginalisation question loomed large, many seeing it as the primary driver of the political upheaval surrounding the 2007 General-Election. Devolution and the equalisation fund became the key constitutional remedies.

Some intellectuals posited that because the promised redistribution – the gains from focusing in high potential areas were to be used to develop the low potential ones - never happened, the unintended consequence of Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965 was to make marginalisation official policy.