Garissa Senator Abulluhai Mohammed Haji had petitioned PSC and CoB to appear before Senate Devolution Committee to answer issues surrounding his county
Garissa County Executive has been accused of operating without Chief Officers contrary to the constitution and high wage bill
Public Service Commission has ordered civil servants fired from Garrisa County Public Service Board with genuine cases to present their personal numbers at the commission following petition by Garissa Senator Abdullahi Mohamed Haji
In a response to the petition where senator Haji sought reinstatement of employees who were seconded from other departments and those who were working with defunct county council to be reinstated since their cases were different from those who were hired by ‘incompetent board’
PSC chairperson told the Senate Devolution Committee that after investigation and verification of academic certificates of 1,053 workers, found out that some were sharing national identity numbers as well as unique personal numbers on the IPPD
He additionally, told committee that some employees did not have appointment letters while others had no clear understanding of their terms and conditions, however, he squarely blamed the board for having conducted shoddy recruitment process during their tenure
“Garissa county public service board do not have competent human resources personnel. We investigated and found that public service human resource policies and procedures were not followed to the letter when this board was conducting recruitment process.
What we can say in a nutshell is that they have incompetent board and Governor should crack the whip to appoint other members who will identify the positions, advertise, do shortlisting, conduct interviews and pick suitable candidates to fill in the existing vacancies,” PSC Chair Anthony Muchiri remarked
Senator Haji had also raised the concerns of the County Governor for operating without substantive Chief Officers as enshrined in the County Government Act 2012
Earlier, the Controller of Budget Dr Margaret Nyakango had blamed the county executive for having high wage bill which surpasses 35 per cent; what is enshrined in the Public Finance Management Act[PFM Act]
She said, that out of the allocation of Sh 10.756 billion in the current Financial Year 2023/2024, the county had spent Sh 4.7 billion on recurrent for the last 9 months, equivalent to 45 per cent, surpassing the target of 35 per cent of PFM Act 2022
Nyakang’o pointed out that Garissa was one of the earmarked counties which are requesting requisition and after approvals by her office, ends up paying unrelated projects and activities which do not reflect in their prior submitted requisition
This, prompted Marsabit Senator Mohammed Chute, to inform the house committee that he is amending the law to have CoB access accounts for all 47 counties and have power to block any unauthorised payments
He said so because many counties ends up paying different things which are not listed during requisition process
“How are you going to tackle this issues because we lie to Kenyans that we use 70% on development whereas it is not,” Chute asked Controller of Budget Dr Margaret Nyakango to also support the upcoming bill
Hello dear. We might frustrated about this county. Call. Garissa county. Since. We elected Mr. Nathif. We. Dnt have chief officer also we have not reinstated employees which court has order if they can return. There jobs
Kindly we need. Fair. For this constitution
How can someone can nt appoint are chief officer for holy of two years
In short. Am commenting if we almost died as youth of Garissa. County.
Thank you