Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i has ordered for the arrest of a contractor after accusing him of shoddy work.
Speaking at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), the CS revealed that he discovered the contractor had taken four years carrying out works on a 4km road stretch in Nyandarua that is still incomplete.
He revealed that after making the discovery, he ordered police officers to track down the individual and have him presented before a court of law to face charges.
He also noted that in his numerous trips across counties, he had discovered that a number of projects had not been concluded accusing the responsible individuals of using bribery to toy around with projects.
"We have been moving around and come across cases where contractors are basically just playing games or some of them are just coming from that old school [of thought] where they believed in navigating their way around by bribing public officials.
“I was in Nyandarua on Monday where a contractor took up an assignment to do four and a half kilometres of a road about four years ago," stated the CS.
"I asked the police team to look for the contractor and arrest him so that we actually can take them to court for wasting public resources. We’re not going to play those kinds of games anymore," he added.
During his address, the CS also noted that his ministry would develop a new criteria in which officers would personally inspect projects to ascertain that they appear as presented on paper.
“We have issues for example of Lake Victoria North Water Company; how is it that you can put on record that you have done x number of boreholes in Western Kenya, and half of those boreholes are incomplete or not yielding water?
"We have insisted that like in case of Victoria North, in order to file a proper report, we will be in the field with the minister and our county commissioners have been instructed to go and look at those boreholes to ensure that what is in the books is correct," he stated.
Matiang'i said we must love our country enough to do the right thing and do the work that we have been assigned to do.
"We are employed by the people of Kenya to get this work done; we cannot lie around pretending and wasting public resources,” he added.
A report by the Auditor General in 2019 noted that the country loses approximately Ksh1 trillion per year to corruption.
This comes even as the state's foreign debt levels cross 60 per cent mark of the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
