President Uhuru Kenyatta has charged five trusted men with ensuring that his Big Four agenda become a reality by the time he leaves office in 2022.
Among the individuals chosen include the newly appointed “super CS," Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Fred Matiang’i, Treasury CS Henry Rotich and head of Public Service Joseph Kinyua.
The other two are the Chief of Staff Nzioka Waita and Interior Principal Secretary Kibicho Karanja.
Following his appointment as the National Development Implementation and Communication Committee, Matiang’i will be dealing mostly with CSs and will be the overall coordinator, with Kinyua heading his secretariat.
Matiang’i will be deputized by Rotich who will ensure that there is money for the Big Four projects. It is reported that Uhuru has a good relationship with Rotich, having worked with him at the Treasury when the president was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance.
According to the new Executive Order issued by the President on January 22, Regional and county commissioners will have to inspect and approve any government project before payment is made.
The PS and Waita will work together to ensure that the provincial administration and all other government agencies deliver.
Kibicho’s role will be to manage the revamped provincial administration where all regional and county commissioners have been given the power to monitor and ensure the implementation of government projects.
Waita had been running the Presidential Delivery Unit but some government departments were not cooperating with his team forcing it to be expanded, with its officers' spread all over the country with the mandate of monitoring government projects.
The new arrangement comes in the backdrop of the first Cabinet meeting of 2019, where Uhuru put on notice all Cabinet Secretaries (CS) who failed to comply with his executive orders.
