With all focus now turned to the Jubilee government after acquittal of the cases facing Deputy President William Ruto and Joshua Sang at the ICC, a politician from Nakuru has asked elected leaders to focus on service delivery.
Stanley Karanja from Nakuru East constituency said some elected leaders especially from the county government have let down President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy in service delivery since they have abdicated their leadership duties.
He explained that some leaders have skipped public participation which is a key ingredient in steering development and instead, formed a group which stands in as the people who were involved in public participation.
“This is the moment we have all been waiting for and now the ball is on the other side and county leaders are now in focus. This is where the presence of the government should be felt and be actively involved in public participation because some do not take it seriously,” he said on Wednesday in Nakuru.
He added that lack of proper consultations between the public and the government has led to leadership wars among leaders and loss of confidence among the public.
“If the citizens for example need a borehole and you never participated in the forum as a leader, you give them something else and when complains are raised, you get a group of people who come and say they passed it which in real sense is a lie,” he added.
Karanja also challenged the Education ministry for its proposed changes in the curriculum saying there was no public participation and the proposed changes do not represent the will of all Kenyans nor education stakeholders in the country.
According to him, the proposed system of education will be expensive to roll out and even maintain.