Wanadayi Has Been Making Mistakes Because He's Balancing Politics And Something Else - Stella Agara

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]We're going to delve into the question.

[00:00:01]Good morning, Stella. Good morning. How are you doing? Great. Yes?

[00:00:05]Um we were just hearing that it's necessary to have a clear demarcation between uh political reward and professional qualifications when it comes to positions that uh require movement implementation, especially in a country setting. What are your thoughts around this?

[00:00:23]And and our law has actually uh anticipated that and and provided for ensuring that there's there's there's first of all merit in appointment, but also making sure that uh the different people who are appointed in different positions actually qualify for the work that they're selected to do.

[00:00:40]Um Indeed, there's there's a remnant of of people within our government and within our our our politics who still believe in servicing patronage networks. And so they will find their friends and want to appoint them anywhere as long as an opportunity is available just so that they can reward themselves.

[00:00:57]Um I I think some of the examples we have seen of of of the appointments that have been quashed by our courts, it's not something that started now. I think we we saw this all the way from the time of Kibaki when there were some some uh um appointments that were actually quashed by the courts and then eventually they had to go back to the drawing board.

[00:01:15]Mhm. Um it's just that our politicians need to wake up from from the old way of thinking where they can appoint just anybody on any position uh for the sake of servicing patronage networks, forgetting that there are certain tasks that require specific um uh qualifications, specific uh skills to be able to accomplish. Mhm. You know, you look at appointments um and I'm I'm I'm just going to go for the cabinet secretary positions that we've seen um happen in the country.

[00:01:43]And the requirement is one needs to be a political, needs to be uh bipartisan, and it needs to be a technocrat in the department or agency within which they're being employed. Why? So that they're able to apply their total expertise in that sector.

[00:01:57]I'm just going to go for the jugular, for example, and I'm going to compare.

[00:02:01]If you look at, say, other jurisdictions, if someone is cabinet secretary minister for health, they are a health expert, someone who can even stand and call a president announce to the nation that a president has died because they were the first responders and can confirm that to a country.

[00:02:18]We look at our situation today, we have cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Health who can they even inject anything?

[00:02:27]Can they hold a scalpel or differentiate the same, you know? And we look at how this individual is coming to manage professionals in that sector, and they do not have the gusto to do that. How does that then affect the provision of services to one N G?

[00:02:45]Dennis, why are you doing that to us?

[00:02:49]He's doing that to the Ministry of Health.

[00:02:50]>> [laughter] >> Are you Are you really Are you really trying to depress us this morning? It's >> [laughter] >> I'm glad you went there because that's one of the the the state departments that has one of the most unqualified people in office. You don't say. And and I just and I just I I don't I don't see and I just want to throw a spanner in the works, eh?

[00:03:10]Uh you know, there are other state departments that have very qualified people like uh Treasury.

[00:03:16]And uh the individual who is qualified for the job is busy politicking. Mhm.

[00:03:20]He's busy running around getting crowned to be the the kingpin. He's busy running around to uh focusing on on on political party business instead of focusing on the work he's supposed to do. He has been reminded by the media, by by by by citizens of Kenya who care about about how he conduct he conducts himself in public office.

[00:03:37]And I guess he's asking us, "Muta do?" I think we need to begin focusing on how that impacts on First of all, service delivery to to Kenyans because it definitely stands in the way of delivery of quality services. It's standing in the way stands in the way of the amount of time that the the the the the servants have to to actually deliver the services they're supposed to be delivering. And sometimes it also stands in the way of the amount of time they have to pay attention to what they need to pay attention to. I would not be surprised to discover that the the CEO of Wandayi has been making the mistakes he's been making because he's busy balancing politics and something else. I mean, we truly truly need to have a conversation about our public servants, how they conduct themselves, and whether we are going to be serious about chapter six of the constitution or we just ignore it all together and decide that we want something different.

[00:04:24]>> Mhm.

[00:04:25]Well, well, well, well, well, I also I also agree. I think that