Siaya MCA’s have asked the executive wing of government to expedite the implementation of projects programmed for the financial year 2025/2026 since it has the capacity to boost their re-election bid.
The County legislators who met Heads of Sectors that drive the economic agenda for Siaya vowed to approve the document once it’s tabled at the Assembly.
Led by Siaya Speaker George Okode, the leaders noted that the implementation of the projects play a key role in their re-election.
“Though the projects respond to the resident’s socio-economic distresses they also aims at saving us from the wrath of the public,”
Okode, while addressing the Joint Executive and Assembly meeting on Wednesday, asked the Heads of Departments to focus on workable work-plans which the assembly’s sectoral committees will pursue to demand accountability.
He pledged to take their oversight role seriously to ensure all the development projects captured in the 2025-26 financial year are implemented without fail.
They said they are not ready to be a letdown to the electorate.
“In the past, we have been busy with accounting officers for department on matters auditing as a way of establishing whether the projects were done but going forward, we shall also ask why completed projects are not paid,” said Okode.
Okode said complains have reached his office that files for projects completed in January have gone unpaid while projects done in July are getting paid.
“Files for certificates and Invoices of projects completed in January are kept aside while documents for July are pushed for payment,” said Okode.
“We shall demand for a contract letter, contract documents including the invoice information to establish whether the contractors are paid and if not, why,”he added.
Okode at the same time advised the Executive to tender projects whose implementation will last for a year or two.
“We urge you to contract projects whose implementations takes a year or two so that the period for campaigns does not frustrate its implementations,” the speaker said adding that in case of grants hiccups, they are ready to work on a supplementary budget for smooth implementation of the programmes and projects.
The speaker was reacting to comments made by MCAs with regards to slow implementation of projects as had been witnessed in the previous years.
The MCAs led by Scholastica Madowo (South East Alego) and Sylas Madingu (Central Gem) told the Executive that the projects earmarked for implementation in the 2025/2026 budget would determine their fate in 2027.
“We hope that the Executive learnt from the challenges that existed before especially the incapacitated contractors. We want you to work smart and not to put us in situations which compromises our positions,” said Madowo.
Mr Madingu noted that the positions they hold are contractual and their coming back is pegged on the delivery of projects.
The leaders spoke in the presence of the County Secretary Joseph Ogutu, Governance Executive Agunda Ochanda, Agriculture Executive Sylvester K’Okoth, Lands Executive Maurice Mc’Orege, Trade Executive Grace Agola, Water Executive Prof. Jacqueline Oduol, Tourism Executive Anjeline Oduor, Finance Executive George Nyingiro among other senior officers from the Executive.
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