He was speaking on last Friday at Kwa Ndaki earth dam project in Mutha Ward of Kitui South Sub-county.
It was built through a partnership between the National Drought Management Authority and the County government of Kitui at a cost of Sh28 million.
He said he was impressed that not only had the dam, with the capacity of 150,000 cubic meters, alleviated water scarcity but it had also empowered the locals.
“If you leverage on the presence of this dam to the maximum by taking up agribusiness, tree planting and pasture growing, soon we will be having a numbers of millionaires in your midst,” Bahari told the community members present.
The CAS, who was conducted in the tour of the project by the Kitui County NDMA coordinator Francis Koma and the Mutomo deputy County commissioner Ronald Enyakasi, said the standard of the workmanship epitomises value for money. He said ensuring cost effectiveness could not be gainsaid.
He lamented that hundreds of millions of shilling were being pillaged from government coffers to people's pockets instead of being used to positively transform lives as is the case with the Sh28 million invested in the Kwa Ndaki dam project.
“It is for that reason that I am calling on all Kenyans to join presidents Uhuru Kenyatta in his efforts to eliminate corruption that has denied the much need services and development,” said Bahari.
