Mudavadi issues ultimatum to top government officials after Ruto order
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Mudavadi issues a 10-day ultimatum to top government officials including Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) after Ruto order.
Government ministries, State Departments and Agencies (MDAs), including the Prime Cabinet Secretary, have been given 10 days to submit their yearly asset reports to the National Treasury.
The Prime Cabinet Secretary indicated that the 19th performance reporting cycle has come to an end and that MDAs that have not yet submitted their reports would not receive an extension.
Mudavadi issued a warning that late submissions would not be tolerated in a speech that was read on his behalf by Ann Wang’ombe, the Principal Secretary of the State Department for Performance Management and Delivery Services.
“As accounting officers, you will have tracking dashboards. To protect you against unnecessary apprehension, adequate resources for implementation have been allocated for these overdue fiscal reforms. We are ready for the reform agenda, so should you be,” Mudavadi stated.
Mudavadi’s ultimatum comes barely four days after President William Ruto chided his Cabinet Secretaries for not being punctual with their activities, and being clueless about their ministries.
On Tuesday, August 1, President Ruto locked out some cabinet secretaries, principal secretaries, parastatal heads, and other government officials for arriving late to the performance contracts signing event at State House, Nairobi.
“For those who came late, who are members of the Executive. I will be expecting a written explanation from you. The traffic claims don’t add up.
“If you cannot keep time with your employer you have basically dismissed yourself,” Ruto told the Cabinet Secretaries who came late for his meeting.
Mudavadi explained that National Treasury is operationalizing the assets module in Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS).
As such, he asked the government officials not to repeat the same mistakes which they had done before, noting that the reports are very important for the Treasury as it seeks to provide a real-time automated platform of capturing government assets data and reporting.
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According to Mudavadi, the current manual inventory management has inefficiencies that limit visibility and control of inventory levels, is time-consuming, prone to human errors, and prevents the optimal use of human resources.
“To achieve the goal of maximizing the value of government investments, the National Treasury has initiated fiscal reforms to automate assets and inventory management in MDAs and in County Governments,” Mudavadi reiterated in his statement.
He stated that the fiscal reforms will be pursued in line with President Ruto’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BeTA).
“Importantly, the changes improve decision-making through data mining and analytics. The decision to pilot these reforms in the Executive and National Treasury, before being roll-out to MDAs, shows the level of Government commitment to see this process through.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the reforms are in tandem with our resolve to automate all Government processes and services, key among them, the management of public assets,” he affirmed.
The Prime Cabinet Secretary reiterated that the fiscal reforms must be given the serious stimulus required since asset management is included as one of the key performance indicators in the 20th performance reporting cycle.
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