Muddying the waters

Clemens

Elder Lister
Agriculture as a devolved function needs to be reviewed. "Why Clemens? You ask?" Well for starters it's grossly underfunded, those guys you elect as MCAs, do not value agriculture in these devolved units.

Secondly Pre-2010 was the last time agricultural extension Officers were employed in most counties, and most have or are retiring in the next 3 years, there is an acute shortage of the personnel who run the critical sector. With the exception of Turkana county where additional staff were hired, the rest of the counties employed subcounty, ward and village administrators(I stand to be corrected on this).

Way forward: the critical sectors of health and agriculture should be a shared function where staffing and payroll should be the responsibility of the national government, while the county deals with deployment.
 

MkukiMoto

Elder Lister
Agriculture as a devolved function needs to be reviewed. "Why Clemens? You ask?" Well for starters it's grossly underfunded, those guys you elect as MCAs, do not value agriculture in these devolved units.

Secondly Pre-2010 was the last time agricultural extension Officers were employed in most counties, and most have or are retiring in the next 3 years, there is an acute shortage of the personnel who run the critical sector. With the exception of Turkana county where additional staff were hired, the rest of the counties employed subcounty, ward and village administrators(I stand to be corrected on this).

Way forward: the critical sectors of health and agriculture should be a shared function where staffing and payroll should be the responsibility of the national government, while the county deals with deployment.
Why not try to make the agriculture sector work under the post 2010 devolved functions ?

Kenyans are still too obsessed with national politics at the expense of holding County government structures accountable. For starters, go after those non performing, power hungry, clueless and greedy MCA's .
 

Mr Black

Elder Lister
First step should be costing of devolved functions and disbursement based on cost, that way the national government stops hoarding cash meant for functions they do not execute.

Then second, we need vibrant citizen activism, with a vocal populace governors are going to bend to the will of the people. Farmers need to make their demands known publicly, dangle the carrot before consumers home kama gafanas will not be forced to invest in agriculture
 

Clemens

Elder Lister
Why not try to make the agriculture sector work under the post 2010 devolved functions ?

Kenyans are still too obsessed with national politics at the expense of holding County government structures accountable. For starters, go after those non performing, power hungry, clueless and greedy MCA's .
I was just reporting what my SubCounty agricultural officer told me, they are suffering under county government, for the last 7 years, he is currently has two field extension staff down from 5 and two clerks. None has been recruited.
 

Doc oga

Elder Lister
I was just reporting what my SubCounty agricultural officer told me, they are suffering under county government, for the last 7 years, he is currently has two field extension staff down from 5 and two clerks. None has been recruited.
And even the available officers work only in the offices. I believe Agriculture in Kenya is being sabotaged by some greedy individuals in high places.
 
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