BY ADOW JUBAT
Garissa Governor Nathif Jama has on Monday dismissed four county executive committee members over alleged poor service delivery, incompetency and failure to meet the set developmental blueprint for the county officials.
In terse brief attached to the letters dismissing the executive members Jama lamented that the officials has become a letdown to his administration service delivery adding that he will crack the whip on any county officials who is not delivering services to the public as required.
The sacked executives are Salah Yakub who is in-charge of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources, Hussein Hajir – Education, Public Service, Intergovernmental and Labour Relations, Idriss Mukhtar – Trade, Youth, Sports and Special Programmes and Mukhtar Bulale – Water.
The governor said he had acted after receiving soaring complaints against the four from members of the public over their non performance.
"What we need is service delivery to the people of Garissa who we work for. Any laxity from any county employer will not be tolerated. We will make sure that the people of Garissa County get the services they deserve most," Governor Jama added.
He added that the necessary process to fill the vacancies left by the four had already started and the names will be tabled at the assembly in due time to avoid a standstill in the affected offices.
Last week in a meeting with his executive officers, the Governor gave the four 3 days to present to him a written reason as to why they were unable to deliver on their respective departments and course why they shouldn't sacked.
One of the dismissed executive who spoke to the Standard on the condition of anonymity accused the governor of stifling them of any resources and power to make them act on their juniors who were a letdown to their respective dockets.
"The governor is blaming us for not delivery, when we can't even make any decision on how to better our dockets. He is the one who want to micro manage anything happening in our ministries. We don't even have any independent access to our ministries money. If vehicles to respond to emergency aren't available", He said.|
Residents of Garissa County has on several times petitioned the Governor to address serious truancy and inefficiency among his county employees, who they accused of showing up in their respective offices when the governor is around just to disappear when he is out of office.
Various opinion polls rating service delivery at the 47 count units has given a bad rating to Garissa County a move that seen to have pushed the Governor Jama to crack the whip.
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