The Nairobi county assembly committee on appointments on Monday vetted five of the 10 nominees for the county executive positions.
The committee, chaired by speaker Beatrice Elachi, started their task by vetting Vesca Kengogo who was nominated as CEC Finance and Economic Planning.
Peter Njuguna (Lands), Allan Igambi (Tourism), Hitan Majevda (Health), and Emmah Muthoni (Environment) were vetted.
They were asked questions on how they would tackle the current problems and challenges in the respective sectors.
Five other nominees namely Danvas Makori (Agriculture), Janet Ouko (Education), Larry Wambua (Devolution), Charles Kerich (ICT), and
Mohammed Ahmed Dagane (Roads) will be vetted tomorrow.
The first lot was also put to task to tell why they thought they were qualified for the positions.
Environment CEC nominee had a difficult time before the committee after she failed to convince them that she was qualified for the position.
Of concern was that Emmah, 34, - a flight attendant - could neither define the meaning of riparian land nor could she state what acronym
EIA stands for.
"I am one person who believes in giving the youth opportunity but I would like to urge you to go and do a research on what the job you applied for is all about," Elachi told her.
Kengogo
said that she will zone and map out revenue streams in the county to streamline operations and optimise revenue collection.
"I will strive to ensure that all local revenues will go towards payment of salaries and other recurrent expenses and leave the equitable share cash from the exchequer for development projects."
The nominee, however, criticised the current revenue allocation formula by commission on revenue allocation.
She said it does not favour the capital city and promised to lobby the national government to introduce a special kitty for the county.
"Nairobi is facing serious issues of under-funding. It requires a different approach of funding and that needs to be addressed," Kengogo said.
She also promised to launch an audit of the procurement department and review all the county debt to ensure that only genuine ones are settled.
Njuguna, the Lands CEC nominee, told the committee that he will ensure that the county gets titles for all the pieces of land it owns.
The former National Housing Corporation managing director said he will prepare the county land inventory and automate services in the department.
Majevda said that he will deal with the frequent health workers' strike and ensure a constant supply of drugs in all hospitals.
He promised to harmonise the payments of all nurses, whether devolved from the national government and those in the counties, to ensure health services are not crippled.
"There is no way the nurses can do the same job but some are paid better than others. If appointed, I will call for a sit-down with all parties to put an end to this issue which is very pressing."
As opposed to ensuring that poor city residents were covered by a NHIF card, Majevda opted to revamp all county clinics that would in turn provide free services to them.
The Tourism CEC nominee promised to help the youth form cooperatives if he gets the job.
He said he will in the short-term open up some streets on specific days in the city centre for the hawkers
to sell their wares.
"Our aim will be to have permanent structures for the hawkers with favorable conditions to do their businesses," he said.
He added that he will only allow hawkers to pay monthly fees, considering their capital worth, as opposed to the yearly payment.
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