Uhuru puts incompetent state officers on notice

By Standard Digital Reporter

NAIROBI, KENYA: President Uhuru Kenyatta has put on notice civil servants sleeping on their jobs asking those who are not equal to the task to leave.

He said the government will not tolerate incompetent officers who cannot deal with challenges slowing delivery of services to Kenyans.

“It is irritating to observe that part of our national challenges is caused, not by unavoidable or elemental phenomena, but sheer incompetence and corruption by people who ought to know better.  This mediocrity lies to waste the efforts of committed, diligent and professional public servants and inflicts misery on thousands of taxpaying Kenyans,’ he said.

“It is not desirable at this stage of our journey to progress, to be obstructed by characters who give no value for public money spent on them.  The time has come to detect and cull them.  On the other hand,” he added.

“If you find yourself suited for the call, I assure you of my government’s full support going forward.  My Administration will recognize and reward those who are conscientious and hard working.”

Uhuru said his administration has outlined government’s goals and will be rewarding success and heavily penalizing failure. “The government will no longer refuge to loafers and joy riders,” he said.

From the 2014/15 financial year, Government will simultaneously conduct public consultations on Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Plan targets.  This means that the consultations will happen at the same sitting.  The public will have a sit at the table when the consultations happen.  “We will, therefore, have a smooth cycle starting with planning, then resource allocation and tracking of results, concluding with a Government framework of rewards and sanctions for the public service.”

The President was speaking during the launch of the second Medium Term Plan.

The Medium Term Plan is the basis for ministerial strategic plans, which in turn guide the performance contracts. The Second Medium Term Plan of Vision 2030 will run on the theme, “Transforming Kenya: A Pathway to Devolution, Socio-economic Development, Equity and National Unity.”  It carries on the system of incorporating critical aspects of each governance pillar at each phase of implementation of Vision 2030.