Isiolo governor reshuffles county Cabinet in bid to improve service delivery

Isiolo Governor Abdi Hassan Guyo has fired his County Executive Committee Member for Education Aileen Kajuju as he reshuffled his Cabinet.

According to the governor, the Cabinet reshuffle aims to improve service delivery and augment performance in the county.

In the re-organisation, Deputy Governor James Lowasa, who was serving as the county executive member for Health, has been moved to the Education, Youth, and Sports Department.

Abdullahi Banticha has been moved to the Tourism, Trade and Cooperative department.

Initially, he was the county executive member for Finance, Economic Planning, and ICT.

Former Trade CEC Lawrence Mwongela will now take over the Finance department.

Those who have maintained their positions include Allo Wario of Water and Sanitation, Environment and Climate Change and Yussuf Mohammed of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries.

Also, Yussuf Dahir remains the CEC in charge of Lands, Physical Planning, Roads and Public Works.

At the same time, Governor Abdi has nominated Lucy Kagwiria to the position of the CEC for Health.

"Pursuant to section 30 2(c) of the County Government Act 2012, I hereby nominate Lucy Kagwiria Kaburu to the position of CECM Health," Abdi said.

The name has been forwarded to the county assembly where she will be vetted by the Committee on Appointments.

Speaking to The Eastleigh Voice, Governor Abdi said the reshuffle was meant to align his Cabinet for better performance.

"Once in a while re-organisation of the Cabinet can be done to yield better service delivery and that is my administration's priority," he said.

Isiolo has 31 chief officers who were vetted and approved by the county assembly.

County chief officers are authorised to delegate power and are answerable to the county executive committee members in their respective dockets.

Their key functions include the day-to-day administration of departmental activities and the provision of strategic policy direction for effective service delivery within the departments they are assigned to.

They also implement policies and programmes within departments.

While CECs are equivalent to Cabinet secretaries in the national government, chief officers are equivalent to principal secretaries.

The governor has already subjected his Cabinet and chief officers to performance contracts.

He told his officers that effective delivery of services to residents was not to be compromised.

"The terms and the contents of these documents were negotiated with each one of us, so there should be no reason why the results that we are looking for cannot be achieved," Abdi said earlier.