KCA CALLS INFORMATION FLOW AT COUNTY LEVELS

The Kenya correspondent association has called on county government to come up with structures to enable free flow of information to enable the public understand what is happening in the devolved systems.

The chairman of the association, William Oloo Janak, noted that there has been difficult in the public through the media in getting the right information from the key players of the devolved system at county levels.

Speaking at Mombasa hotel he admitted that county government was new to Kenyans and there was need for free flow of information to have it work.

“The media plays a critical role in conveying the massage to the public and is in this regard that the governors should come out with clear mechanism and have communication structures and give the exact information to the media.” Said Janak.

KCA chairperson addressing press at a msa hotel

According to him, the governors should feel free to give the real picture of what is happening at county government rather that PR information to build them while nothing might be happening on the ground.

However he noted that every stakeholder is learning about devolution and there is need for commitment for the process of devolution as it’s a system that guarantees participation to the people and service delivery.

Janak challenged the transitional authority to do their best to have the county system picks up among them addressing the issues raised by governors including budgetary allocation.

Speaking during a stakeholders’ forum organized by KCA, the tourism stakeholders called on the need to engage all the players in the sector to increase employment opportunities.

According to Edward Wangechi, program manager,Mombasa and Coast tourist Association, the idea by some county government to do away with beach operators may lead to loss of over 6500 jobs across the coast line.

“The county governments need to engage these people and probably regulate them rather that doing away with them at the name of harassing tourists. What they should do is do away with beach boys who are not registered and leave the genuine operators to earn a living.” He added.

Wangechi noted that the move might have been propagated by key beach players in the industry to deny the local citizen the benefits they rip from the sector and called on a sober approach to deal with the insecurity issues resulting at the beach front.

kca call information stractures at county level