Frog-filled ponds, idle cattle dips are all there is to show after spending millions
A man walks past what was meant to be Nakuru East Secondary School at Mzee Wanyama area in Nakuru. It was abandoned due to a land dispute. PHOTO | WANJIRU MACHARIA | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- In Bureti, a Sh80 million pineapple factory in Roret has not been used, due to what former MP Franklin Bett said was a shoddy job by the contractor.
- In Kisumu East, some of the cattle dips constructed for Sh200 million have never been used because they are too small for a cow pass through.
- In Nyanturaga, Nyaribari Masaba constituency, a fish pond is lying desolate with frogs croaking merrily in the six-acre pool that swallowed Sh4 million.
Frog-inhabited fish ponds and cattle dips too small for cows are all the CDF can boast of in some areas.
In Nyanturaga, Nyaribari Masaba constituency, a fish pond is lying desolate with frogs croaking merrily in the six-acre pool that swallowed Sh4 million.
Residents said they only saw officers harvesting fish once, then it wound up five years ago.
In Kisumu East, some of the cattle dips constructed for Sh200 million have never been used because they are too small for a cow pass through.
But the Kisumu fund committee manager Kipng’etich Lang’at said he was not to blame that the dips at Obino and Obumba have been idle.
In Bureti, a Sh80 million pineapple factory in Roret has not been used, due to what former MP Franklin Bett said was a shoddy job by the contractor. The Kericho government was last year unable to install a processing machine at the plant because the structure was “too small for it”.
According to Mr Bett, the pineapple plant that the Kericho County government argued was a waste of resources cost “only Sh23 million”.
“Those saying I wasted money are maligning my name. I put up the factory building. The county (government) should do its job and bring in the machines and stop apportioning blame,” said Mr Bett, a former Roads minister.
Several projects in Kisii County’s Nyaribari Masaba and Nyaribari Chache constituencies have stalled due to lack of funding.
A multimillion-shilling engineering workshop is on the verge of collapse due to lack of additional funds.
Equipment worth millions of shillings are locked away, rusting in a partially constructed hall.
Kisii Deputy Governor Joash Maangi said the county government planned to move the equipment to another institute or pump money to finish the centre so that it could be used by engineering students.
But questions abound how the heavy machinery will be used in the swampy centre.
In Isiolo North, Oldonyiro maternity clinic and Bula Pesa dispensary are incomplete but in use. The maternity centre got only two beds out of the 10 it was meant to have.
In Nyaribari Chache, Sh1.3 million allocated by the fund to build a dais at Nyanturago Stadium cannot be accounted for.
Area MP Richard Tong’i told the Saturday Nation by phone from Nairobi that an election petition stalled the construction.
It’s knee-length pillars with dangling lintel wires have been so for 10 years.
In Funyula constituency, Busia County, four dispensaries have remained idle. The fund committee says the county government has not recruited doctors.
Similarly, four other dispensaries in Nambale were completed by the constituency fund but have not been used by the county.
Funyula fund chairperson Sarah Muhombe said they used millions to build the four dispensaries but the government failed to hire staff.
“The dispensaries remain white elephants as the county government has not hired any staff to work in the dispensaries,” she said.
Reported by Magati Obebo, Duncan Ageta, Patrick Langat, Everline Okewo, Benson Amadala, Derick Luvega, Anita Chepkoech and Linet Wafula
