Writes Jakotae Omory from Uriri District
Queries are emerging over the way projects were allocated funds, in Uriri Constituency. Locals want to ascertain how much money was allocated to each project and compare the stage it has reached with the initial allocation whether they are tallying.
Many Uriri Constituents are wondering whether some CDF projects had consumed all the colossal amount of money initially allocated to them because right now they have became white elephants as though they never received proper funding from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) docket
A typical example is St Monica Rapogi mission hospital which was allocated two million and the criterion which was which was adopted in choosing the contractor whose work shattered this health structure into pieces like a clay pot thrown out of the window, after breakage because it has become useless.
These monopolistic awarded contracts will further divide the constituency seriously engulfing it in shameless and myopic nepotism and corruption, to worsen the matter, the purported lieutenants and hoodlums of the current MP in the CDF office are the main mayhem.
This is because there are constantly thumping their chests that they will clear anybody criticizing the shoddy work of their contractors forgetting a proverb which says “small hills are the fountains of most of our groans”
Lastly, Kudos! To our beloved member of parliament, honorable Cyprian Ojwang Omollo, because this time round he totally differed with them and immediately ordered for the removal of old fake painted iron sheets which had already been used on the project in question. The move is welcomed by most of the constituents and your political protagonists are yet to recover from the shock of this surprising positive move.
Going by romours doing rounds that the CDF officials are going to be given summary dismissals, the incoming officials get it from Lawrence Peter American writer that “going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car” so you rather settle on a contractor with tangible proof like Tajo contractors whose amicable job at the DO’s office has been approved constituency wide.
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boazomory@yahoo.com
About Economic development, i would like all of us Kenyans of good will to form forums in our respective communities and make time to be visiting them. In these forums we should come up with ideas, and ask the community dwellers to generate ideas of
1. Why they think that they don’t progress and
2. What they think the remedy would be.
After this then we should look at their views and give our suggestions and inputs then we implement. This way they will take ownership and run with these projects.
For instance, why would any kid not go to school fed? Why would any kid go to school without proper uniform and shoes? Why would any homestead not have solar lighting up the houses?
This are basic requirements and they are the ones that are contributing ti this poor performance by our children in the rural areas and yet they sit for the same national examination with the children in those communities that have access to these amenities.
Simple solution (Perennial)
Each home stead to plant two or even four Avocado trees.
Each tree will yield about 3000 fruits. Each valued at Kshs 15/= so you can see what this will do to our mothers and the families that live in our communities.
This will also reduce the urban migration because there will be need to set up operations to
a)Distribute this fruits
b)Value additions
c)Manage drop off points and
d) Train in other business practices and opportunity exploitation.
I would like to continue discussing this things so keep me posted and as i am currently in Canada and will be returning to Nairobi next month, you can reach me on 0723 898434.
Thank you and i look forward to this engagement. Keep up the good stuff.
Am luke millewa, the son of the Great George owino millewa of Rapogi. May my Dad rest in peace Amen. I remember him so much when i see great opportunities are lost and joked around with. i knew right from the dawn of my childhood that he was a man of the people. Would he not be the MP of this consituency by now were he alive?
My brothers and sisters down there in the village and everywhere else, we must begin from a common premise. let us think first of a philosophy of health. This is where we must begin, for there is no development unless we begin with our own selves=THE INTERIOR wholeness that will automatically subject us to right thinking. unless we want to be better than parents, less shall we achieve in that land. Tell me my people, “who dies in that village (down there) at old age? give me the sttistics. it is ashame on us the young. material developments that make us exchange fists is KINY we are no there. we are SICK. ETHICS OF LIFE IN MORAL UPGRADING and we shall prosper.
i am a university student. for the past three academic years, i have applied for the cdf bursary in vain. the last time i was told that i had been allocated some funds and had to wait for the disbursement. however on later enquiry, the very location representative claimed she did not even know me. what is the criteria used in these allocations, coz i believe that i do merit