Ardhi House along Ngong Road in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO |
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Lands Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi has said ministry officials will soon be subjected to a lifestyle audit to fight graft.
The
minister said hard questions will be asked on anyone living beyond
their means adding that no one conducting private business will be
spared.
“Why would one be running a private land
valuation or lands agency office next to their government office?” he
posed adding that no employee will be allowed to remain in one station
for over three years as this helped create cartels that were used to
fleecing wananchi.
Mr Kaimenyi said the move was aimed
at enhancing services and shedding off the tag ‘the most corrupt’
ministry tag which placed the lands’ ministry at position three.
SAFEGUARDS
The
CS also welcomed whistleblowers saying he was glad the law created
safeguards for whistleblowers saying this could bring to an end various
activities that created lush grounds for graft to thrive.
“On
grabbing of land, that must be fought for posterity reasons since one
will question the actions we took when we were in office. It is upto us
to ensure we work jointly with the Interior ministry to curb alienation
of public land and invasion of private property,” he said.
He
said eight teams had been selected to scale up the three million title
deed issuance project by 1.2 million by 2017 estimated to cost Sh2
billion.
The Lands CS added that all civil servants
must regularly supervise construction projects to ensure quality work is
done thereby saving billions of shillings.
He said
where a clear case of shoddiness was discovered, the officer concerned
would be held liable for sanctioning payment of such work that he knew
had shortcomings.
The CS added that a systems audit
would also be carried out within the ministry to streamline all its
systems and enhance service delivery adding that funds would be set
aside for digitization of 10 more registries.
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