Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki now says that the National Government Administration system can connect the government agenda to the grassroots.
Speaking on Tuesday, during a meeting with President William Ruto and senior NGAO officers at the Kenya School of Government in Lower Kabete, Kindiki insisted that if well guided, the system can effectively and conveniently do this.
He said NGA officers know the country very well and they can support in ensuring it is safe and united.
“The National Government Administration system is an extremely impactful and consequential, system that well guided can assist in connecting the work vision and agenda of the government with the grassroots easily, conveniently, efficiently and at zero cost,” Kindiki said.
“Your Excellency (President William Ruto), these officers and all of us have a very rich footprint across the country and therefore, talking to us today is going to motivate us to apply that network and footprint to support your administration and make sure our country is safer and more cohesive.”
He noted that while the Constitution envisaged reforms in the NGAO to align with the new order, much of that has already happened.
Kindiki, however, said that there is work that still needs to be done to complete the reforms.
He noted that a few policy and structural gaps remain, which if filled, NGAO will have more impact and will be more useful to the government.
“When the current constitution was enacted, roughly 14 years ago, it envisaged the restructuring of NGAO to align with the new constitutional order. Much of that restructuring has happened under the National Government Administration Act, of 2013,” he said.
“Much of the legal alignment has been done but as the representative of these officers has said we still have a few policy and structural gaps we need to fill to create more coherence and more impact so that we can be more aligned to the new constitutional order and be more useful to the government of Kenya who is our employer.”
The CS reiterated that the ministry is working with all NGAO officers and other stakeholders to ensure the reform process is up-to-date and constitutional.
He said they will also ensure it is aligned to the realities of the Kenya of today.
