Thika Diocesan Bishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) Reverend Julius Njuguna has urged both the County Government of Kiambu and the leadership of Thika Town Constituency to integrate local professionals into their governing councils.
Speaking at the St. John’s Happy Valley Church on Sunday, Njuguna added that this would merge diversity into all of the processes of local leadership thus improve on service delivery to the people.
“This area has a very rich human resource manpower and if taken advantage of, it will be of great help to the region and the country.
"Why can’t you hire independent professional for their skills in specific areas of concern?” posed the bishop.
He challenged residents especially the professionals to always take part in governance by presenting their input in various programmes.
"As professionals, we need to relentlessly engage in all programmes initiated by our leaders. Come out and preciously say what you want. Your input is very crucial as it helps to bring into perspective, the professional perspective aspect in governance,” he said.
He asked the leaders to come up with programmes that would see development of centers of excellence across Kiambu County that provided leadership, best practices, support and training across disciplines on projects that were locally relevant and internationally competitive.
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