No sacking of civil servants, says CS Anne Waiguru

Anne Waiguru, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Devolution and Planning

NAKURU: The Government has denied allegations that civil servants who did not meet the criteria put during the biometric survey will be sacked.

Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru said no civil servant had been sacked yet as they were finalizing the Capacity Assessment and Rationalization of the Public Service Program (CARPS) report.

Waiguru said the program once complete will have to be discussed by the two levels of government before being made public.

"We are in the final stages of this report but what we know is the ministries that have fewer staff and those that have adequate and the appropriate measures to be taken".

According to her, the report will be discussed by the Summit of the Council of Governors which is chaired by the president and urged Kenyans to be patient and wait for the outcome.

Waiguru was speaking to the press when she toured various development programs currently being undertaken by National Youth Service (NYS) in Gilgil Town.

She termed the projects as a success noting that in areas where they have done it before youths had become self-reliant.

The CS said under the Slum upgrading program for four areas in Nairobi, hundreds of youths benefited from the scheme saving hundreds of millions that would help them start up small scale business.

"Youths in Kibera, Korogocho, Mukuru and Mathare areas have so far saved close to Ksh 470M and this will enable them start up businesses".

Waiguru noted that after the projects the government was sending trainers who will help capacity build the youths on small business as a means of making them self sustainable.

"We want them to become entrepreneurs because we cannot be in the areas for long and this is why the trainers would be sent once the project is through at a particular area".

In Gilgil, the CS announced goodies for hundreds of jubilant youths who lined up the streets of the sleepy town to receive her saying that green houses would be constructed for them to start agribusiness.

She said that NYS would work with them in rehabilitating roads at the largest informal settlement in the area while a multipurpose social hall would also be renovated.

"I want you to work with us in this venture and what you grow in the green houses I assure you that there is a ready market at the NYS recruits college here in Gilgil while you save at the Sacco".

Other projects include the opening up of a Huduma centre in the area which she said would be complete by December ahead of its commissioning by the president later that month".