DOES GARISSA GOVERNOR NATHIF JAMAA, HAVE HONEST ADVISERS OR IS HE DEAF TO SECOND OPINIONS? Personally, I voted for Nathif Jamaa on 4th, March 2013 general election. In fact, even before casting my vote for any other candidate. This was a personal decision, after all nobody solicited for my vote to go his way. My convictions to vote for my burly looking Governor, was driven by three things. Firstly, I voted Nathif because his was on the right side of the presidential candidate race (with Raila’s CORD party), who I strong believed and still do would emancipate Kenyans from poor governance, corruption, nepotism and other social ills that bedevils our great country one day. Secondly, I voted for Nathif because I was told he is a staunch religious person and statute banker, who transformed First community Banks into what its today. And thirdly, I voted for Garissa Governor, for his then love in Islamic dressing code (kanzu) and his frequent quotes of the most powerful verses in the Holy Quran, which he occasional spiced up with energizing Hadith told by first line disciples of the prophet (PBUH). I said for his then love in dressing in Islamic gowns, with a clear purpose here, after all he rarely show up in Kanzu, as frequently this day as he was during the campaign period. But if election was to be called today, my vote will obviously not go on his way easily, unless his administration convinces me on its developmental projects prioritize otherwise in the next few days. WHY? UGATUZI AND KAZI This program purportedly inspired for creating job opportunities for the massive unemployed youth in the County, will be doomed to fail as that of many of its predecessors programmes implemented by the national government to establish jobs for the youth namely Kazi kwa Vijana. Firstly, there are no clear guidelines, accountability strategies, checks and balances on how the selections, qualification of the candidates, sustainability and balancing of community interests, of the beneficiaries of these 100 youth to be hired by each sub-County will be undertaken. And in a situation like this there are a lot of open loopholes, which can be abuse to induce corruption and abuse of the program by the ill motivated supervisors and handlers of the project. And its best we shall increase the number of ghost workers amid our County staffs for it will never be easy task to supervisor a group of employed youth with no clear job description, while bloating the recurrent budget of our County. During his visit to Mbalambala sub-county to lunch such program, which I accompanied him anomalies has occurred unknown to the Governor and many others present at the function, there was a husband and his wife, who were among those awarded with contract papers to polite the project for the sub-county. Those who did the selection must have a selfish agenda or interests for doing so. My experienced Journalistic nose for details caught that blunder. I will provide the names in case they are needed, even now. Another, issue with this program is the job descriptions of those to be employed under this project. According to Governor Nathif, their work is to clean towns, plant trees and take care of environment. But my question is how would cleanness be quantified against the wages been paid and stipulated working hours per day. And whose responsibilities are for our neighborhoods to look clean and healthy? Is that of an individual dweller or that of County administration? I’m personally on the opinion that, our town and villages can be kept clean by us been responsible for our household refuse disposal. This culture can be inculcated by lying down strict by-laws to punish those who litter their settlements and reward those who safeguard the cleanliness of their areas. And what the County government can do is to supplement its people with dustbins and vehicles to collect the accumulated waste for proper disposal into designated dump-sites. In fact by hiring people to clean towns and sub-counties, will bread a culture of dwellers littering their environments with more dirt by taking don’t care altitude to waste disposal and management. TREE PLANTING Unless the developers of this “Ugutuzi na Kazi” program are from the mars or even bringing them closer to us are from the Jupiter, I’m yet to see any sub-county with luxury of water sharing their hard to find water with an exotic tree transport from Thika to make roots in our County. If the taps of my home town of Masalani in Ijara County, which lies 4 kilometers from the gigantic River -Tana are rusting of dryness, where will a tree planted in Illan village in Lagadera sub-county, where recently a teenager boy was brutally buried under rumbles of mud, while digging Laga in search of water get the said commodity to share with a plant? Unless, the pleas of our people are deliberately ignored or not heard well, every sub-county Hon: Jamaa visited, the cries coming from the residents was something of rehearsed clarion call– we want water, water, water. TOMORROW I WILL OFFER MY UNSOLICITED ADVICE ON THE BEST WAY TO USE THIS PROGRAM.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:23:45 +0000
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