Education Officer Has No Idea What His Job Is

[Omollo]

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This is bad reporting or the TSC County Director has no idea what his job is.

[RV Pundit]

We need a marshall plan for the entire north. Focus mainly on the basics - schools & hospitals. Sadly they haven't taken advantage of Equisaltion fund. Odhiambo the Budget controller says - out of 11b - they can barely utilize 1B.

[Omollo]

We need a marshall plan for the entire north. Focus mainly on the basics - schools & hospitals. Sadly they haven't taken advantage of Equisaltion fund. Odhiambo the Budget controller says - out of 11b - they can barely utilize 1B.

Reduced absorption capacity is a direct result of having limited (and qualified) personnel. This disease infected Africa when the IMF first came with the Structural Adjustment nonsense. Areas of the North and other marginalized districts lost the few people who had braved the tough conditions to work over there.

There are other factors when it comes to absorption but the key is personnel.

I am told the IMF is back with a new round of layoffs targeting public servants. I think someone should for once show them the middle finger. This nonsense of retrenchment is practised by banks in Kenya to no documented benefit. They fire highly qualified and experienced staff and hire bimbos for their looks and zero anything else.
 
The same happens with airlines. Yet those same banks (the international money launderers like Barclays) back home keep their staff until the age of retirement.

I would recommend to those counties to hire more qualified staff and in large numbers. Nanok does not have to wait until Turkanas get PhDs to hire staff. He can rescue Pundit from Uganda. He will see the benefits.

Just for theb record: Many county governments have hired a lot of people. They just hired unqualified people.

[RV Pundit]

What about just wiring money to people via mpesa...create welfare system..that will quickly see absorption and poverty reduction
if building schools is so hard for nanok

[Omollo]

What about just wiring money to people via mpesa...create welfare system..that will quickly see absorption and poverty reduction
if building schools is so hard for nanok

That may cater for cash transfer to beneficiaries. It is usually not a problem.

I refer to county governments that "return money" to the treasury unspent.

This was a disease that bedevilled Kenya in the 70s and 80s. It was corrected briefly when Moi took over but the IMF forced SAPs which caused a reduction in personnel brought by retrenchment and a freeze in hiring.

Most of the unused money is for development programs and projects. I know one county that could not go to tender and when they did had no staff to undertake a technical and financial evaluation of consultants who would then be hired to over see the tendering etc. By the time they got all in place, they could not possibly spend the cash. Government cash must be spent within that budget cycle.

[RVtitem]

He isn't worse than the rest of GOK which essentially upgraded all technical colleges to university and created a crisis of graduate unemployment.