A lobby group in Kisumu county has now put the county leadership on the spot regarding what they term as slow growth in the county.
Transform Empowerment for Action Initiative Executive Director, George Collins Owuor, says that they are worried that no tangible development initiatives are taking place in the county.
Owuor said that the Kisumu governor must now come out and defend his development record since the county came into place. He added that the county assembly too seems to be going to bed with the executive instead of performing their oversight role as mandated in the county government act.
Speaking in Kisumu on Tuesday, Owuor said they have given the county assembly representatives two weeks to summon the County Executive Members to explain what they have done in their dockets.
Owuor accused some MCAs in the county assembly of being too loyal to the governor and thereby even forgetting their oversight role. He said that the governor too must now be in a position to explain to county residents the development activities he has done adding that the recently released World Bank report paints the county in bad light
On the same note, Owuor said the governor should make public the report on evaluation of the County Executive Members in terms of performance contracting. He said the recent bonding retreat that cost the country millions of shillings was unnecessary adding that the allocation would have been used somewhere else.
“As a lobby group they will not hesitate to start a process of signature collections to dissolve the county government if service delivery cannot be achieved,” he said.