Daniel arap Moi's announcement in October 1982 that Kenya would henceforth allocate its resources for rural development on a decentralised basis, to be more responsive to the ‘needs and aspirations of wananchi ’, 1 is one of the clearest statements by an African President that the state must establish a better consultative relationship with the people it claims to serve.
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