{"id":4649,"date":"2013-10-04T18:20:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T18:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2013-10-11T01:19:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T05:19:28","slug":"kenyan-president-warns-incompetent-state-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4649","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan President issues warning to incompetent state workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kenyan-Cabinet-Secretaries-after-signing-their-perfomance-contracts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4651 alignleft\" alt=\"Kenyan Cabinet Secretaries after signing their perfomance contracts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kenyan-Cabinet-Secretaries-after-signing-their-perfomance-contracts-300x200.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kenyan-Cabinet-Secretaries-after-signing-their-perfomance-contracts-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kenyan-Cabinet-Secretaries-after-signing-their-perfomance-contracts-220x146.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kenyan-Cabinet-Secretaries-after-signing-their-perfomance-contracts.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, has warned all incompetent state workers to leave before the government catches up with them.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the signing of performance contracts for cabinet secretaries, Kenyatta said his government was not going to tolerate public officers who could not deal with the challenges of public service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Should you find yourself either unable or unwilling, you owe it to Kenya, and to your conscience, to stand aside in good faith. Our people do not expect to hear excuses instead of service delivery,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is irritating to observe that part of our national challenges is caused, not by unavoidable or elemental phenomena, but sheer incompetence and corruption by people who ought to know better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not desirable at this stage of our journey to progress, to be obstructed by characters who give no value for public money spent on them. The time has come to detect and cull them,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyatta also said that his administration would support and reward conscientious and hardworking individuals going forward. Those who meet the government\u2019s goals will be rewarded and those who fail will be penalized.<\/p>\n<p>The president also launched the Second Medium Term Plan for vision 2030 which will be implemented between 2013 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2014\/2015 financial year, the government plans to engage the public in formulating the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and plan targets. Both consultations will take place at the same time to ensure a smooth cycle from planning, resource allocation and monitoring of results. This will facilitate a framework of rewards and sanctions for public officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, has warned all incompetent state workers to leave before the government catches up with them. Speaking during the signing of performance contracts for cabinet secretaries, Kenyatta said his government was not going to tolerate public officers<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4649\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[42],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}