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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Omollo on September 13, 2014, 01:53:25 PM
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There was a lot of noise when some youth threw a shoe at Uhuru Kenyatta in Migori. Raila was asked to apologize at gun point. Now we have a County Commissioner and DC together directing the snubbing of the Leader of Opposition. Obviously they are acting on the basis some instructions from the top.
My suggestion is that CORD should react by instructing its governors to ignore County Commissioners, mobilize people to ignore meetings called by them and appoint parallel officers and use CDF to pay. That will kill the provincial administration. I also suggest they include a question in the referendum to finally kill it by transferring their functions to governors.
CORD team led by Raila Odinga got a rude shock when they went to a District Commissioner’s office to offer motorbikes to chiefs only to be turned away.
Kathiani MP Robert Mbui had invited Raila, who was accompanied by Machakos Senator Johntsone Muthama, his Siaya counterpart James Orengo and CORD’s election commissioner Peter Mutulu to a brief handover of 21 motorbikes to chiefs bought by CDF money.
The function to be conducted outside Kathiani Sub County commissioner’s office was moved to a nearby ground after the administrator Geoffrey Omonding turned down a notification to use the compound.
The commissioner said he had not been notified and proceeded to a meeting with chiefs in his office: ‘’I cannot be ambushed just like that, the MP should have told me in advance about the function and his guests.’’
He denied that he had been instructed by his superiors to snub the function. Mbui said after he contacted the Machakos County Commissioner Ann Gakuria on phone, “she told me to take the motorbikes to my politicians because her chiefs will not take them.”
But contacted for comment on the matter, Gakuria said she was far away in a crucial meting and was not in a position to talk. Mbui, who said he bought the bikes at Sh2.5 million with CDF money to boost chiefs’ services to the people wondered how the commissioner could ignore them.
‘’This is taxpayers’ money that bought the bikes and I don’t understand how civil servants, paid by the same tax can ignore this assistance,’’ he said The motorbikes, which had GK registration numbers were finally given to village managers and elders.
Raila condemned the incident saying provincial administration should not behave like in the old Kanu way. ‘’We have a new Constitution which provides freedom for every leader as long as he is a Kenyan and the DC and the commissioner should not have acted like that,’’ he said.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000134774/uproar-as-state-officers-snub-raila/
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What is the policy on donation of equipment to gov; i know the police were grappling with one in view of counties buying cars and name it for them.
I find it hard to criticize the prov admin given they are supposed to be non-partisan.
CDF should have handed the bikes without the fanfare of inviting cord (political event).
Uhuru has a double role of being political leader and gov leader. Big difference with Raila who is a politician.
The DC call is right to reject the politicization of prov admin...the PR is atrocious...he should simply have called the chiefs for important "emergency meeting" and told CDF to have them bikes delivered without fanfare.
Bottomline: CORD need to realize they are the opposition..and respect civil servants and Jubilee as the gov.
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I think the solution is to strengthen devolution and get rid of the Provincial administration structures once and for all. Their role is very confusing.
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The one thing I find unacceptable is to use so much money on bikes for GoK appointees who should get that from their employer. There should be guidelines to prevent money being used on GoK.
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There was a lot of noise when some youth threw a shoe at Uhuru Kenyatta in Migori. Raila was asked to apologize at gun point. Now we have a County Commissioner and DC together directing the snubbing of the Leader of Opposition. Obviously they are acting on the basis some instructions from the top.
My suggestion is that CORD should react by instructing its governors to ignore County Commissioners, mobilize people to ignore meetings called by them and appoint parallel officers and use CDF to pay. That will kill the provincial administration. I also suggest they include a question in the referendum to finally kill it by transferring their functions to governors.
CORD team led by Raila Odinga got a rude shock when they went to a District Commissioner’s office to offer motorbikes to chiefs only to be turned away.
Kathiani MP Robert Mbui had invited Raila, who was accompanied by Machakos Senator Johntsone Muthama, his Siaya counterpart James Orengo and CORD’s election commissioner Peter Mutulu to a brief handover of 21 motorbikes to chiefs bought by CDF money.
The function to be conducted outside Kathiani Sub County commissioner’s office was moved to a nearby ground after the administrator Geoffrey Omonding turned down a notification to use the compound.
The commissioner said he had not been notified and proceeded to a meeting with chiefs in his office: ‘’I cannot be ambushed just like that, the MP should have told me in advance about the function and his guests.’’
He denied that he had been instructed by his superiors to snub the function. Mbui said after he contacted the Machakos County Commissioner Ann Gakuria on phone, “she told me to take the motorbikes to my politicians because her chiefs will not take them.”
But contacted for comment on the matter, Gakuria said she was far away in a crucial meting and was not in a position to talk. Mbui, who said he bought the bikes at Sh2.5 million with CDF money to boost chiefs’ services to the people wondered how the commissioner could ignore them.
‘’This is taxpayers’ money that bought the bikes and I don’t understand how civil servants, paid by the same tax can ignore this assistance,’’ he said The motorbikes, which had GK registration numbers were finally given to village managers and elders.
Raila condemned the incident saying provincial administration should not behave like in the old Kanu way. ‘’We have a new Constitution which provides freedom for every leader as long as he is a Kenyan and the DC and the commissioner should not have acted like that,’’ he said.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000134774/uproar-as-state-officers-snub-raila/
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