The Mountain Journal
Deputy Governors have told the Senate that their positions have been rendered irrelevant as they have remained idle.
They blamed their state as the law was silent on the duties they were supposed to execute.
Led by their chairman Reuben Kamuri told the senate that they need to be accorded some assignment to salvage them from the condition.
They told the senate that they spend time taking tea and reading newspapers in offices as they wait for assignments from the county governors.
” We are referred as flower girls as we are sent to represent our boss in low profiles functions in the villages,” said one of the deputy governor from Eastern region.
Kamuri informed the committee, chaired by Wajir Senator Sheikh Abbass, that most counties have budgets for the office of the Governor, while the office of the Deputy Governor has no financial allocation and resorted to begging facilitation.
“The issue at hand is about dignifying the office of the Deputy Governor. It is not about competing with governors, but about ensuring there are clearly defined roles for the Deputy Governor so that there is uniformity, rather than a few working well with their Governors while the rest are sidelined,” said Kamuri.
