President Uhuru Kenyatta has asked 'weird thinking' governors not to compete him in matters of the country. [PHOTO/plive.co.ke]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has asked bosses of county governments not to compete him in governing the country.
Uhuru said that the county and national governments were supposed to complement each other and not be in unnecessary competition.
He said the competition seen in terms of development projects should be brought to an end.
"We should do these things together...my hope is that as we move forward, this transformation journey should not be a competition," he said when he launched the information portal on Monday.
"If we did not have such weird thinking by some governors, we would be doing things together."
He added that the presence of county governments does not imply that the national government has been barred from implementing projects at their level.
Uhuru has of late lacked good words for a section of governors, dismissing Mombasa governor Hassan Joho as not being his wife and calling Turkana governor Josephat Nanok a 'foolish devil'.
He also accused Kilifi governor Amason Kingi of "lying to people" about projects of the national government in his county.