By Eric Omwombo
Siaya County Secretary Joseph Ogutu has called upon heads of departments driving Siaya’s economy to prioritize flagship projects, saying these can have a quicker social and economic impact on people.
He made the remarks on Friday during the CIDP sensitization workshop aimed at identifying and implementing flagship and full package projects under the development budgets.
Ogutu said the Nyalore government was no longer interested in doing small projects with little impact as that is reserved for Ward Development Funds.
“The Nyalore government is committed towards supporting projects with greater impact in the community so focus is diverted to a few big projects with a quicker socio-economic impact.”
ADVERTISEMENT“The plea am making to the departments is that we utilize the resources at hand and concentrate on implementing flagship projects, rather than spreading them thinly and at the end of the day not seeing any major impacts,” said Mr. Ogutu, adding “Ward funds will always be there to facilitate smaller projects while what is funded by Executive will mainly be flagship projects.”
The CS said the projects should be of high value and not the smaller ones that consume in the range of KES 3 – 5 million.
“They can be projects funded between the County Government and other partners especially where their is matching funding.
The flagship projects considered by Governor Orengo’s government includes but are not limited to: Completion of Siaya Stadium, Modernizing of Siaya Referral Hospital which has started, Revamping of the Vocational Training Centers, equipping and deploying staffs to them, Equipping of the existing Early Childhood Development Centers and Rolling out the school feeding program targeting nursery kids.
Others are Maintenance of the existing Roads and upgrading specific roads to bitumen standards, Upgrading of the air strips at Sega, Gombe and Migwena, establishing modern Market’s, installing Floodlights which are solar powered in the markets, establishing a centralised County Headquarters and face-lifting the existing sub-County offices and extension of water pipeline.
The Finance Department has undertaken to work on Automation of the revenue streams.
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