Kibwana, ICPAK partners on County financial management

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Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana has collaborated with top management officers of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) on who to train financial officers.

The team met at County offices and the talks centered on possible areas of collaboration between the county government and the accountancy regulator with a view to strengthening financial management systems.

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Among the identified areas of collaboration include accounting personnel capacity building, establishment of a CPA centre and KCA University satellite campus in Wote, own source revenue growth, financial risks management and training of SMEs, FSAs on financial growth.

Kibwana has pledged that the county government would make available five acres of land for the establishment of the CPA center and KCA University Campus in the 2019/20 budget cycle.

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The ICPAK delegation was led by Chief Executive Officer Edwin Makori and the manager, Devolution and Branches Public Policy and Research Division Hillary Onami.

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Kibwana has been on the mission to transform the county.

recently he advocated for proper implementation of Competence Based Curriculum.

Kibwana waded into the subject that has put the education ministry at loggerheads with the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) officials over its implementation, saying the new curriculum is good for the country’s development.

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“The Competence Based Curriculum allows learners to gain practical skills and focus more on their future career building subjects as opposed to reading purely for exams,” said the governor.

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“It is understandable that the current teachers were trained purely for the 8-4-4 system and thus proper training on the new curriculum is required. Efforts should be made to train teachers during holiday seasons and the requisite infrastructure put in place if the new curriculum is to takeoff,” he said further.

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