County bosses meet in Homa Bay this week as part of the biennial ritual to take stock of the progress made in the previous two years.
Homa Bay this week will be abuzz with visitors, estimated at 11,000 tourists, who will sample what the town has to offer in terms of hospitality and business and strategic investment plans that should lead to financial self-reliance.
We hope that the governors and their deputies will, for once, make life-changing decisions and commitments to improve the lives of their constituents.
Most counties still cannot meet their own-source revenue collection targets and rely dangerously on cash from the Treasury to run the most basic of needs.
Coincidentally, last week the Auditor General released a report that revealed that county payrolls have turned into a den of corruption in which over-establishment by ethnic-inspired hiring is rampant, manipulation of salaries is endemic and the inflation of the number of casuals is the order of the day.
Governors will make all the right noises about fighting corruption while at the same time running companies via proxies, usually relatives or trusted allies, that fleece the very poor they pretend to represent.
Quote of the day: “The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.” —Cuban revolutionary and president Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926
