Restore the value of performance contracts

Prime Minister Raila Odinga was in order to refuse to sign performance contracts for ministries whose ministers and permanent secretaries did not show up for this annual event on Friday. That nearly half of the ministers missed the event illustrates the low regard in which they hold these important contracts.

But beyond simply berating them, as the PM did, the more pertinent question that should be asked is; why did these ministers and their permanent secretaries miss the event? It could probably be that they find no value in attending and only do so for public relations.