In Summary;
- Village Admin Advert
- Why committee kicked out a CO (video)
- The irony; Covid-19 blame
- Sideshows prior to shortlisting
County Public Service Board (CPSB) of Bungoma on Friday, 23 April 2021 published shortlisted names of Village Admins a few days after the County Assembly of Bungoma cautioned the executive against doing it citing lack of budgetary allocation among others. In the letter signed by the communication officer in the assembly, the legislation arms of the county warned of dire consequences should the executive continue looking down upon the assembly and its resolutions.
The shortlisting has seen Kanduyi top the list with 759 applicants as Webuye East tails with 249… Here is the list of applicants per SubCounty;
| No. | Sub County | Venue | No. of Candidates |
| 1. | Kanduyi | Bungoma Diocese (ECDE) Centre | 759 |
| 2. | Bumula (610) | Bumula CDF hall | 337 |
| Kimaeti – Kimwanga Catholic | 273 | ||
| 3. | Elgon (478) | Cheptais CDF Hall | 208 |
| Kaptama – Kapsokwony CDF Hall | 270 | ||
| 4. | Tongaren | Tongaren Ward Admin’s office | 439 |
| 5. | Kabuchai | Mabanga FTC | 395 |
| 6. | Kimilili | Kimilili Friends Church – Temba Temba | 367 |
| 7. | Webuye West | Matisi CDF office | 299 |
| 8. | Sirisia | Sirisia Social Hall | 269 |
| 9. | Webuye East | Webuye Town hall | 249 |
“Copies of the lists can be found at Ward and Sub County Administrator’s offices as well as on the noticeboard at the CPSB offices in Bungoma Town” say Tim Machi, the Director Communications
DOWNLOAD advert here; http://Bungoma – Village Admin Shortlisted Candidates 23-4-2021
On 20th Nov 2020 the CPSB thru an advert in the dailies invited interested candidates to apply for 236 village administrator’s positions, an advert that saw a series of summons by the assembly over what it termed as an irregular advert. It’s on record that some CPSB officials blamed the Executive for the irregularities
Chief Officer chased from a committee sitting;
Early this week the Public Administration Committee refused to interrogate Kapchanga, the Chief Officer in the Public Administration department over his utterances at a function in Mt. Elgon. The Chief officer found himself stammering not knowing whether to confirm that it was him who indeed referred to MCAs as “wakora” over their stand on the employment of village admins. He at one point blamed the person who recorded the clip as being biased as the clip did not capture his entire speech… but the committee could hear none of that. They asked him to make a satisfactory apology and therefore withdraw those words in writing before they admit and/or interrogate him. At that point against his will he was escorted out by the sergeant at arms.
Video:
During a special cabinet meeting held at the auditorium on 15th April 2021 the CEC finance was ordered to write to the CPSB asking it to proceed with the recruitment citing availability of funds… The truth is the CEC herself is up to this point relying on the County fiscal strategy paper (CFSP) as opposed to the Appropriation ACT for 2021/22 which should be in place by 31 June 2021
The irony; Covid-19 blame
There exists some irony in the way the CPSB seems to on one had put the ECDE teachers’ interviews on hold as it announces dates for the village admins who are much more in number. It must be remembered that the CPSB was for three weeks held up in Kisumu ostensibly to do ECDE teachers shortlisting but instead they ended up working on the village admins list as earlier reported by ikuweikuwe.com
The Executive has nevertheless lined up a request for 96 million for the employment of village admin, an employment that will go beyond the sealing over and above the current 48% way above the stipulated 35% wage bill. The assembly on the other hand is likely not to allocate funds once more to this employment
The ECDE teachers mostly replacements meaning they are already catered for in the budget as opposed to village admins.
Sideshows prior to shortlisting:
- Thursday 15th April 2021 Governor Wycliffe Wangamati allegedly summoned CPSB to Ciala Resort – Kisumu in the presence of DG Ngome, CS Wambati, CO Mukenya among others where he is alleged to have used the same same threatening line he keeps using to arm-twist them “…If you don’t shortlist village admins, tutawatumia vijana”
- On Saturday, 18 April 2021 one Makata is alleged to have been handed a list of names to incorporate on the shortlist, #iKUWEiKUWE suspects these are the preferred village admins… the interviews are therefore a formality.
- #iKUWEiKUWE has leant that the County Assembly of Bungoma is likely to sanction the governor’s and CPSB offices… details in our subsequent updates
