“Such questionable expenditures appear particularly gruesome given the rising wage bill and fact that the government has been unable to meet its obligation to teachers.”
On insecurity, the Vision 2030 director said the country needed a well defined chain of command within the police force.
“Insecurity has been a major problem and a key concern of Kenyans.”
Murunga said the Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo had continued to treat reform issues with disdain and has failed to “shepherd the force into an institution whose core anchorage was on the people and not the State.”
“The police have done little to connect with the people, something which the Waki Commission on PEV recommended and which acknowledged good policing practice across the world.”
“The government response to insecurity has been predictable.”
The government’s intervention in the health sector was seen as its core achievement so far.
“The waiver of maternity delivery fees is certainly a good idea that has began to benefit many families,” Murunga said, a point welcomed by Co-convener, National Women’s Steering Committee, Daisy Amdany.
She said the government had shown political will to empower women in the country.
About the controversial laptop project, Kibati said it was set to advance access to education materials in schools, encourage early exposure to IT and promote IT growth and development in the country.
“We are heading to an e-world where the world will be a small global village.”
Murunga commenting on the laptop question said: “How the good thinking around enhancing ICT skills of children will sit in an educational environment replete with obsolete practices, poor infrastructure, and ill-trained (in terms of IT use) and hardly properly motivated teachers remain major issues to be sorted out.”
Commissioner Kamotho Waiganjo of the Constitution Implementation Commission however urged Kenyans to perform their role of ensuring the government performs and delivers on all its promises.
The Jubilee Coalition formally launched its campaigns at the Kasarani Sports Complex on February 3, when they unveiled their joint coalition manifesto where they made their 100 days promises.
Some of the assurances they made were to abolish maternity fees and to ensure “that all citizens are able to access government dispensaries and health centres, free of charge”; to develop a framework to direct Sh6 billion previously allocated for the election run-off towards establishing a new Youth and Women Fund.
Others were to put measures in place that will ensure that all students joining class one next year, within the public school system receive a laptop and also to immediately begin the process of supporting devolution and enabling county leadership to carry out their constitutional mandate.
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