By Reuben Olita
Bukhayo North/ Walatsi Member of the County Assembly in Nambale Sub County Gardy Jakaa has appealed to EACC and DCI to unearth the rampant nepotism in Busia County.
The alleged nepotism came to light early this month when EACC summoned at least 39 directors and deputy directors over alleged irregularities recruitments, based on nepotism.
Addressing mourners today, 12th November 2024, during the burial service of Mwalimu Jerome Imutuan Omusugu at Kidek Village in Amagoro location, whose teaching career spaned 49 years, Jakaa alleged that the recruited directors and deputy directors didn’t deserve to be put on the county payroll.
” The anti-graft body should
intensify investigations, and those found calpable should face the full force of the law,” he said, calling for nullification of those who had been shortlisted through fraud, be revoked, and same jobs be readvertised.
Jakaa added: ” The treasury department in the county government of Busia has become a crime scene. All CEC, Chief Officer, director budget, director accounting services, Director Revenue, Director Audit, and all staff in the audit department coming from one community.”
Jakaa urged the Directirate of Criminal investigations to ensure regional balance and deployment are enforced considering that Busia is a cosmopolitan county.
EACC has summoned the officers to record statements between November 4 and 20 in Bungoma regional office. Jakaa said he wants the anti graft body which he has faith in to do a thorough job in their investigations.
Imutuan died after a long illness bravely borne. He became a trained teacher in 1975 before rising through the ranks to becoming head teacher in 1995 until his retirement in 2001.
Imutuan served as the secretary to the Teso Council of Elders up to his demise. He also participated in farming growing cotton, cassava, groundnuts, oil palm, millet, maize, and green yams.
Dr Brian Singoro, the Bom chair of Bishop Atundo High School, where Imutuan was a PTA Board Member, described him as time manager, very obedient, and down to earth man.
KNUT Teso Executive Secretary, Geoffrey Eksaiba, said Imutuan’s son David was a born musician who is an acclaimed choir master where he scored an A plain in music in KCSE exams in 1996 at Kolanya Boya High School.
CEC for strategic partnership, Douglas Okiring had good news for health institutions in Busia County with revelations that Facility Improvement Fund has been effected, with 80% of the funds retained in the health institutions for better service delivery.
Okiring said 7km of tamarc road linking Stadium-Roiko, Malaba Posta-Equity Roads had been set aside to beautify the busy border town.
