County Executives Committee members and chief officers will not be allowed to travel abroad anymore, Deputy Governor Ruth Odinga has announced.
The deputy governor froze the trips owing to the under-performance of the county staff who have been accused of spending much time training and not taking their work seriously.
“I have ordered the Finance department to freeze travels until an audit is carried out to ascertain their efficacy,” said Ms Odinga.
She stated that she cannot allow a situation where senior officers are perpetually out on training and workshops out of the county and things are not happening on the ground.
“I am not against training, but I believe we have had enough trainings and therefore need to start practicing what we have learned since 2013 by offering services to the people,” she said.
Governor Jack Ranguma appointed his deputy to head a department in the office of the governor that prefects the development projects of the county government.
The department has been alive for the past four months and that the brief analysis she has done has exposed very glaring inadequacies in the implementation of the development projects.
“We have come across projects that have not been completed three years since inception besides some exhibiting very shoddy work. Of great concern is that most of these incomplete projects and badly done projects have been paid,” said Ms Odinga, terming it outright robbery of the public.