By Manuel Odeny
Migori county government is legally restructuring the administration, a senior official has said amid political tension.
Reports of several transfers in the administrative amid ongoing massive recruitment of new over 600 staff has seen tension which has spilled to politics and social arena.
Speaking to Nyanza News over the phone, Migori county secretary Oscar Olima said the move is a normal common practice in any government.
“”We are out to realign our system to leverage with the interest of wananchi and for purposes of improving general service delivery to the people,” Olima said.
In the last two years after being elected governor and taking over from Okoth Obado, Ayacko has been faced with bottle necks in aligning the county human resource.
Ayacko inherited a ‘militarised’ staff, most who campaigned against him and a last minute bloated workforce where Obado confirmed several staff as Permanent and Pensionable when it was apparent his nemesis Ayacko was poised to win at the ballot.
The new Migori county public service board headed by David Ocholla has also been grappling with court cases.
Ocholla took over from Jared Kopiyo as the chairman of the board after Kopiyo’s team was impeached by the county assembly.
Last week local politicians led by Uriri MP Mark Nyamita castigated Ayacko and his administration for several restructuring.
Nyamita wondered why Ayacko advertised for some positions which had office holders and lamented over the restructuring.
But Olima said such claims were baseless and comes at a time when politicians who vowed to scuttle the administration are not happy with progress.
“We had people who vowed to ensure Migori does not function, with plans to ensure human resource management was stopped through cases against the board. We managed to sail through and we will deliver to voters,” Olima said.
Olima said after last poll, Migori County administration needed to “restructure goverment system to realign with the aspirations, mission and vision of Governor Dr George Mbogo Ochilo Ayacko.”
“Such adjustment would have occured at the onset of the terms of the current regime but some obstacles were placed before,” he added.
He said the board doing its legal mandate in staffs promotion, placement, deployment and employment.
“We are happy to inform Migori residents that we have overcome earlier challenges and we will be enhancing effective operations of goverment departments and efficient performance of duties against the manifesto, public agenda and programs we have,” Olima said.
Olima warned staff as civil servants to avoid antagonizing the government and maintain an honest, genuine and professionally ethics to ensure service is delivered to wananchi.
“Every officer and staff is assigned roles, duties and responsibilities congruent with his abilities, capabilities, qualifications, merits and record of past performance,” he said.
~Dr Oscar Olima.
County Secretary and Head of Public Service.
