KISUMU, Kenya, Sep 19 – A county coordination and implementation of national government policies committee has been inaugurated in Kisumu with a sole responsibility to monitor the progress of national government projects.
Silvance Osele, a director from the government delivery unit domiciled in the office of Prime Cabinet Secretary says the new committee will be the eye of the national government at the county level.
Osele says their main mandate will be to verify the implementation of such projects, monitor and identify bottlenecks.
“They will be required to resolve arising issues and escalate the same in case they are unable to resolve matters arising,” he said.
The former Kabondo Kasipul MP noted that the chain of command starts from the county, regional before it disembarks in the national government.
“If the regional team fails to address the issues then it is escalated to the Principal Secretaries committee, which deals with it and advises the cabinet on the next step,” he said.
Addressing the press in Kisumu on Tuesday after chairing the first county coordination committee, Osele said the team will embark on serious monitoring of government projects.
He says what used to be the President’s Delivery Unit is now a Government’s Delivery Unit with an expanded mandate to cover all national government projects.
Osele noted that the government is keen to revive stalled projects in all corners of the country and initiate new projects.
He says the government factored into the budget funds for stalled projects noting that contractors will now move to sites to complete what they started.
“There are new projects which are starting, like in the Blue Economy department, we have Kabonyo Kanyagwal aquaculture fisheries project in this county, all these will be monitored by this team,” he said.
The committee comprises the county commissioner, heads of government departments and parastatals.
Kisumu County Commissioner Hussein Alassow warned that corruption will not be tolerated during the discharge of government’s work.
Alassow noted that the government has taken a stand in the fight against corruption and the county of Kisumu will scale up the stand.
“We must desist from this vice and I want to tell the public to desist from engaging in corruption on services which are free,” he said.
