The Government has begun a weeklong training for public servants with the aim of enhancing prompt delivery of services to the public.
The training, which targets officers at both Regional and sub-county levels, also aims to review progress achieved in terms of development since the Kenya Kwanza government came to office in 2022.
Speaking to the media at FK Resort in Nyeri on the sidelines of the regional forum, Central Regional Commissioner Joshua Nkanatha said the platform was an ideal setting for ensuring various government departments work in harmony to achieve the mandate of the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
Nkanatha noted that while the majority of Kenyans are well aware of government programmes, there still remains a number who are unaware of what the government is doing to uplift their living standards.
“This is a sensitisation workshop for Heads of Department at the regional level consisting of officers from Interior, Housing, Roads, Education and SMSEs. All these are departments involved in implementing the BETA whose objective is to pull the low-income earners into a middle level. We want to work together and make it possible for our people to move from one place to another since the roads are passable,” he explained.
“At the end of the day, we want to ensure this information is cascaded to the people on the ground since the majority are actually unaware of what we do,” he added.
Nkanatha also raised alarm over increasing cases of crop and livestock product thefts, which he said were slowly creeping into some parts of the region.
He singled out the theft of pineapples, coffee and macadamia as among the leading targets and warned those behind the practice to stop the vice before the Government organs catch up with them.
“Those who are stealing agricultural products are not doing so due to lack of employment. These are people who do not want to work and want to live off the sweat of other hard-working Kenyans. We shall not treat them as jobless people but as criminals. And their final place of call is in a court of law,” he warned.
The regional administrator also urged the public against resorting to suicide but rather to seek help whenever one finds himself or herself overwhelmed. He termed the practice of taking one’s life as self-defeatist.
His comments came after a recent case whereby, last month, a woman allegedly took her life and that of her two children by plunging into the River Chania in Nyeri. The middle-aged woman and her two children had been missing since December 29, 2025 before their bodies were discovered in the river on January 18.
“As a Government we wish to urge our people not to wait until they are overwhelmed by issues of life to the point of taking away their lives and those of their loved ones. Let anyone who is undergoing a traumatic experience in his or her life look out for someone whom he or she can confide in. In the event the matter is beyond friends, let us approach any government officer for help and spare our lives and those of our loved ones,” advised Nkanatha.
By Samuel Maina and Wangari Mwangi
