Bungoma Governor Kenneth Lusaka has issued a one-week ultimatum to public officers engaging in premature political campaigns to resign and pursue their political ambitions or face the axe.
Addressing the media at the county headquarters, Lusaka said early campaigns by public workers undermine service delivery, urging those interested in politics to either quit in one week or focus fully on serving the people. "We have given you public jobs to serve wananchi, not to spend time politicking and campaigning for yourselves or others at the expense of serving the locals who gave us a mandate to work for them and uplift their living standards and not for your own good," said Lusaka.
He stressed that early campaigns were a major setback to effective service delivery and vowed not to hesitate in sacking any officer found flouting the directive. "I will not hesitate to sack anyone found going against the directive of engaging in early politics.
We want to focus on service delivery, working for the people and implementing the manifestos we sold to our people for the remaining period in the office so that we can change people's lives," said Lusaka.
