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The.Black.Templar

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Nilikuwa naambiwa story kitambo the government had a ministry of local works or something similar to that. They would employ actual civil engineers and all the construction equipment needed and they would build the roads themselves without external contractors, similar thing to what machakos governor is doing

So my question is this, is this a better approach than the current one of hiring contractors for everything at god knows what costs and very little gets spent in our economy, including less taxes than the old ways of emoloying engineers to do the actual job?

Siku njema wadau, nawapenda nyote
 
Nilikuwa naambiwa story kitambo the government had a ministry of local works or something similar to that. They would employ actual civil engineers and all the construction equipment needed and they would build the roads themselves without external contractors, similar thing to what machakos governor is doing

So my question is this, is this a better approach than the current one of hiring contractors for everything at god knows what costs and very little gets spent in our economy, including less taxes than the old ways of emoloying engineers to do the actual job?

Siku njema wadau, nawapenda nyote
Could you guess their performance by drawing parallels to other government-owned entities? Add to that the ease of converting pilfered resources to cash.
 
Nilikuwa naambiwa story kitambo the government had a ministry of local works or something similar to that. They would employ actual civil engineers and all the construction equipment needed and they would build the roads themselves without external contractors, similar thing to what machakos governor is doing

So my question is this, is this a better approach than the current one of hiring contractors for everything at god knows what costs and very little gets spent in our economy, including less taxes than the old ways of emoloying engineers to do the actual job?

Siku njema wadau, nawapenda nyote


To my untrained eye, I think one has better chances of demanding quality performance from an employee than from a contractor.

Kuna siku nilijipata kwa MoPW compound in Meru and I honestly felt a heavy sense of loss at all the equipment just lying idle, wasting and rusting away. Of particular interest to me was several units of those very nice Daewoo trucks that had been donated by the Korean gov’t.
 
Could you guess their performance by drawing parallels to other government-owned entities? Add to that the ease of converting pilfered resources to cash.
You can compare with what Mutua is doing in Machakos, he has employed engineers and purchased the necessary equipment to do the work....let me see if there is data on the county ministries of works
 
To my untrained eye, I think one has better chances of demanding quality performance from an employee than from a contractor.

Kuna siku nilijipata kwa MoPW compound in Meru and I honestly felt a heavy sense of loss at all the equipment just lying idle, wasting and rusting away. Of particular interest to me was several units of those very nice Daewoo trucks that had been donated by the Korean gov’t.
Even in Nyeri all that equipment is just wasting away, i remember every now and then a grader would dhow up kwa kijiji and just flatten the road, and you could tell that it was a government grader being worked by a government employee....things actually worked
 
You can compare with what Mutua is doing in Machakos, he has employed engineers and purchased the necessary equipment to do the work....let me see if there is data on the county ministries of works
Good. Now scale that 1000 times and you will realize that the same control and results cannot be achieved. In the same way, churches run health facilities very effectively but the government is unable to replicate the same on a large scale.
 
Just after thika road was done , Chinese govt sold some equipment to Kenya government and for those who used that highway the machine were lying idle at NYS for years, you could see them inside the NYS compound until they starter disappearing when the bundalangi perennial disaster cropped up, you recall the mama ' wa serikali tuko mahali pambaya ,serikali saidia ! '
 
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