Deputy President William Ruto has announced that all parastal directors be published in 30 days.
While addressing the media at Nairobi Hotel he said, “I want to ask the Treasury to forward the list of the parastatals and government departments that have failed to comply with the directive so that we can take on the boards and CEOs. It’s not a request the President was making. It is an order to be implemented.”
In addition to his statement he said, “The National Treasury should forward the list of public entities yet to comply with Executive Order 2, of 2018, on the publication of companies doing business with the government.”
The DP’s directive comes after president Kenyatta ordered for similar directive to accounting officers whom he warned would be held responsible if they sanction new projects without express authority from the National Treasury.
“When a government involves citizens and organised civil society in the audit of its governance practices, promises and programmes; the society is more stable, the country more organised and the people much happier because they know how their nation is being run in their best interests,” the DP said.
Ruto said the culture of the government officers denying the public vital information on its activities must stop.
He added that the National Treasury and other oversight bodies (Controller of Budget and Auditor General) should also include the details of those who have won the big tenders in their periodical reports for effective scrutiny.
“Government has been known as Sirikali -less information, more confidentiality, and many secrets. We all know that societies that have embraced democratic transformative governments, which is about less confidentiality and more information are growing,” he said.