Logo of WhatsApp. PHOTO | STAN HONDA | AFP
Summary
- The directive is expected to take effect in 2019.
- Mr Maalim instructed heads of departments to ensure that all civil servants under them sign clock in and clock out registers to identify those absconding duty.
- The administrator decried the sleaze among civil servants, which he vowed to curb through the new staff management approaches.
Civil servants working in various national government agencies
and departments in Makueni County are now required to publish their
daily activities on WhatsApp.
County Commissioner Mohammed Maalim said move is meant to address absenteeism and general sleaze.
The directive is expected to take effect in 2019.
All
heads of departments are required to publish the daily activities of
their juniors “complete with pictorial evidence” on a new WhatsApp group
created and administered by Mr Maalim.
“I
will personally monitor and make spot checks to see to it that this has
been implemented. Where we will detect absence of the head of
department, I will write to their respective accounting officers who are
expected to initiate action,” Mr Maalim announced on Thursday during
the last County Service Delivery Co-ordination Committee meeting this
year.
He further instructed heads of
departments to ensure that all civil servants under them sign clock in
and clock out registers to identify those absconding duty.
The administrator decried the sleaze among civil servants, which he vowed to curb through the new staff management approaches.
“There
is no worse corruption than when civil servants sneak from their duty
stations while they are expected to deliver timely and quality services.
We want to see committed servants of the people in 2019,” he said at
the meeting, citing a 2014 executive order by President Uhuru Kenyatta
“which directed and empowered county commissioners to co-ordinate the
national government business in their counties”.
The
monthly meeting brought together civil servants in various national
government agencies and departments in the devolved unit and heads of
departments.
Mr Maalim also called on
civil servants to get out of their offices and meet citizens at the
grassroots where they are expected to deliver services.
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