CSs Kindiki, Murkomen's Improptu Visits to Gov't Offices Is Bad Idea - Ahmednasir Abdullahi

Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi is not convinced the unannounced visits senior government bureaucrats make to offices yield results. 

In the recent past, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki and his Roads and Transport colleague Kipchumba Murkomen have been visiting offices within their dockets for fast-tracking of Kenyans' documents like passports and driving licenses.

Impatient applicants had decried delays in the printing and issuance of passports, same with those waiting for their driving licenses.

The above prompted Kindiki to visit Nyayo House to assess the situation, with Murkomen camping at the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) to examine the cause of the delays in the processing of the passports and driving licenses.

Criticising this mode of operation, Ahmednasir observed that the CSs were overstepping their mandate.

The attorney noted that each government docket had a hierarchy through which crucial roles were undertaken.

According to Ahmednasir, the CS ought to be preoccupied with matters of national interest at the expense of monitoring their juniors.

"When you have two senior Cabinet Secretaries storming offices and workstations of clerks in their ministries and addressing mundane issues of driver's licences, logbooks, police clearance certificates, passports etc...issues routinely handled by entry-level clerks in the ministries, then you sadly realise that the system is broken and Kenya is not delivering for the common man/woman," noted Ahmednasir.

According to him, it is never the job of a minister to address what he called pressing but trivial issues of the common citizenry.